Martin Yan Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Practices were tough.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.
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They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I normally don't eat junk food.
