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“People who think about the past have no future.”
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“I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.”
Source : "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012. 
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“We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.”
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“We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.”
Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 134), March 29, 1963.
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“I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.”
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“There were times when I thought I would never own a car.”
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“A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.”
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“Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.”
