"It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything."

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Source : "Selling Beauty on a Global Scale". Interview with J. Alex Tarquinio, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2008.

Andrea Jung

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Vantage Point Quotes

“Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.”
“We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.”
“A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.”
“Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.”

Source : David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co
“The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.”
“I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.”
“Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is”
“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.”

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