"I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere."

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Source : "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. July 31, 2004.

Anna Sui

#Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes #Mind Quotes

“What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?”
“There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse
“'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.”
“If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.”
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.386, St. Martin's Press
“We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.”
“Music is a great blessing. It has the power to elevate and liberate us. It sets people free to dream. It can unite us to sing with one voice. Such is the value of music.”
“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.”

Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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