Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
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Sometimes I want to just pull the off switch, but you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You can't say, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not feeling good today.' No. No one's trying to hear that. When a woman comes up to you and says, 'Hey, my daughter's your biggest fan. Can we have a picture?' You can't say no.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
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I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
