"How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?"

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Source : Bruce Poon Tip (2013). “Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business”, p.153, Hachette UK

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“Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.”
“For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.”
“Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.”
“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
“Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.”

Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.
“Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.”
“Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.”
“Change your story, change your power.”

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