"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."

-- Donnie Yen

#Growing Up Quotes #School Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.”
“Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.”
“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.”

Source : Interview with Derrick Bostrom, derrickbostrom.net. October 6, 2006.
“I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.”
“I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.”
“If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.”
“It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.”

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