Bangkok Quotes

• I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

  Bobby Flay

  Cities, Energy, Thailand

  "New York restaurants are a world of good". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions.

  Todd Phillips

  Vegas, Decision, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Watch Shonda Rhimes’s Wonderfully Candid Dartmouth Commencement Speech". Shonda Rhimes’s commencement address to the students of Dartmouth, www.vulture.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Country, Travel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Glasses, Air

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

  Robin Leach

  Travel, Persons, Subjective

  "Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

  David Attenborough

  Sweat, Tin, Hell

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• What it boils down to is that when you say the word Las Vegas it means something. You could say New York City and it doesn't really mean anything. When you say a word like Bangkok, in my mind it means something. There's not a lot of cities where the world literally brings a picture to your mind.

  Todd Phillips

  New York, Mean, Vegas

  Source: collider.com

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

  Robin Leach

  Class, Culture, Exotic

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Japan, People

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• The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Firsts, Heard

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• Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the setting is intoxicating and the plot unwinds in dark illusory strands, reminiscent of Gorky Park. Once I started, I didn't want to put it down.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Character, Dark, Unique

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• I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

  John Burdett

  Thinking, Average, Paris

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• We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Song, Night, Long Ago

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana

  Michael Grant

  Crazy, Islands, Feelings

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• Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, Usa, America

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

  Austin Grossman

  Children, Hero, Heart

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Butterfly

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• In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in her one-on-one session where she wanted photography to be in her life.Did she want a second career? Was it about earning money? Or was it art? And she said "None of those. I want photography to be serious in my life." It would be like someone wanting music, like piano playing, to be a richer, deeper, and maybe even harder experience.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Art, Doctors

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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