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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.
- Nov 07, 2020
The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don't see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.
- Nov 07, 2020
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
- Chemical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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- Nov 07, 2020