Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
mostly treated
We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.
character distinct preserve trying
We were trying to preserve the distinct character that's there in the region.
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We were a lot stronger underneath this time and had the size advantage. We also were more patient and kept swinging the ball until we had an open look and then finished strong.
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We were blown away by the size, age and diversity of the deep-water corals we saw during our 2002 Davidson cruise. Indeed, the discoveries we made during that cruise prompted members of the public to propose that Davidson Seamount be protected as part of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. We wanted to go back to learn why so many extraordinary corals thrive there and to determine their age and growth patterns.
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What I find interesting about it is the richness of the archive and the challenge of figuring out how the language as it was documented in 1905 is similar to or different from the language we can hear now. The project is trying to pull all of that into one big picture of a single language.
hindsight ifs
I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
building-up vanity different
The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
dream opportunity play
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
incentives film feels
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
financial modern crisis
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
money intuition needs
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
probability-theory risk management
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
technology labor cheaper
Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.
simple psychological-disorders law
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...