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"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
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"Just when you see a kid selling a mascot,If you don't buy it because he winks, Not only that will be considered a "boycott",Xenophobically, it will also be a jinx!"
"Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people."
"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
"Old words are reborn with new faces."
"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."
"Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along."
"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."
"We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books."
"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."
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"You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good."
"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful."
"A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion."
"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you."
"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
"The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined."
"I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed."
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
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