#met

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her. ↗

— Jung Chang

#anyone #atmosphere #environment #heart #her

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#buy #door #friday #friday night #go

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#always #building #companies #cool #friends

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#care #companies #like #ones #people

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world. ↗

— Julia Gardiner Tyler

#am #commenced #entertaining #i #intend

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#al #al gore #almost #doing #even

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason. ↗

— James Carville

#gets #reason #right #right reason #right thing

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#big #choice #cool #doing #equally