Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
Pat Cadigan -
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
Carine Roitfeld -
I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
Damian Woetzel -
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter -
I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
A. Whitney Brown
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
Bear Grylls -
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
Tawni O'Dell -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
Kailash Kher -
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
Barbara Walters -
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Fay Weldon -
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Jaclyn Smith -
I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
Halle Berry -
It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
Quavo Migos -
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.
Jill Lepore
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I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
Andrew Bogut -
'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
Ian Holm -
Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.
Pitbull -
I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.
Loretta Swit -
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
Yuan Yuan Tan