Cliff Chiang Quotes

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Cliff Chiang

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I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

BeingEngagedJournalistStopped

I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.

Angela Bowie

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Fashion week is not an episode of 'Girls' or 'Friends,' where I'm OK that there is not a black person in sight because I honestly believe these characters don't come into contact with - therefore don't have - any black friends. No, in the case of Fashion week, it feels wrong.

Amanda Seales

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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Sun Ra

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'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.

Robert Ben Garant

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As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.

Mike McCready

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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Miranda Richardson

BeachChildhoodIdealMuchSounds

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Mitt Romney

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The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth.

Jared Kushner

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I am religious in my thinking.

Dianne Feinstein

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

PerfectionPeopleEvilSociety

Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

Cornelia Parker

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