Joan Chen Quotes
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
Joan Chen
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
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I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
Raekwon
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
Ednita Nazario
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
Hannah Kearney
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
Calvin Johnson
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus
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Belief is thought at rest.
Larry Harvey
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
Kate Middleton
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
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I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.
Rhys Ifans
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I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Peter Eisenman
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I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
Paula Deen
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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher
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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
Joan Chen
