Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

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• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Gaming

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

  Kate Moss
  • World
  • Fun
  • Best

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Doing
  • Young
  • Wanted

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

  

  Schuyler Fisk
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mom

• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Magic
  • Arguing

• Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

  

  James Dyson
  • Good
  • Air

• I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.

  

  Caroline Winberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • She
  • Girl
  • Sex

• I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • World
  • Hard
  • Flying