Ken Jeong Quotes
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I like things simple.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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'A splendidly inept thing,' Sylveste said, nodding despite himself.'What?''The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off-it just gives up, resets itself to zero. Admit it. None of us feel a damn about these people.'
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Repeat after me: I only invest my energy into people who invest in me. I only date people who intentionally want to get to know me. I do not chase people and try to convince them to like me.
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I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.
