David Henry Hwang Quotes

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

David Henry Hwang

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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins

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I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

Matthew Desmond

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There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

Michael Arrington

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When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying to have the world in your clutches.

Trevor Paglen

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I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Loretta Lynn

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Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

Joseph Brodsky

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In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Chris Isaak

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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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If you can't get tax breaks, then there's no reason to film in a city or state.

William Fichtner

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I'm not going out there screaming, 'I'm CEO! I'm CEO!' That's not the way to do it.

Payal Kadakia

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It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sean Parker

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There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

Scott Borchetta

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