Ronny Chieng Quotes

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

Ronny Chieng

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SayingThinkSomeoneKnowSayHear

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

John Bercow

MindKnowCannotPsychicPublic

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Angelina Grimke

WomenYouMoreSheSeeSlave

When you do anything creative, you really have to live entirely in that world. I think my ability to do that is what makes me such a bad dinner guest. I'm always looking over someone's shoulder, taking in stuff around the room, immersed in the world of whatever I'm writing about, and keeping the characters completely in my head.

Stephan Pastis

LiveCreativeMeDinnerWorldThink

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

Robert Anthony

BestProblemEscapeWayYourSolve

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Roger Penrose

NatureBookKnowRightPointHere

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

PoliticsPricePaidHeavyToo

Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

Jonathan Franklin

FightEnvironmentalStopNewWhales

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

Bonnie Bedelia

TruthActionJudgeDieKnowNever

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

Brian Tyree Henry

MyselfVoiceLoseWantFoundYale

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

FaceFirstImpressionUsEncounter

I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.

Alice Ripley

WorkWomenMeSayAdmireWhatever

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Suzan-Lori Parks

MyselfYourselfPeopleMeSomeone

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