Lauren Tom Quotes

When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.

Lauren Tom

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GirlMeThinkThoughtTalkingWhite

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

Jodie Foster

WorkHateMeClothesPersonWant

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Joan Collins

BeautyHealthFoodEatingThinkYou

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

LoveGirlBeautifulLove IsMeeting

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

ProblemsCareTake CareYouCreate

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

Matthew Ramsey

BandSoundBecauseDifferentWho

If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.

Michael Greger

WaterPressurePushYouBodySalt

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

Michael Connelly

PeopleMeWritingCelebrateBook

We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't.

Tom Steyer

ControlWorldTryStuffSeparate

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.

Julia Mancuso

FenceYouMatterOverMilesGoing

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Julia Roberts

FunnyLoveAgeLightQualityYou

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

Diane Greene

CloudsCustomerRunWantsEvery

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Susie Orbach

LifeUnderstandingAcceptEmotional

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