Charlyne Yi Quotes
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
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The qualifying residents can either come in or have someone come in for them to pick up an application; at that time they can make an appointment. It is getting time for us to start taking appointments, but it is not too late to fill out an applications.
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Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
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I would never sign up to film my personal life.
