Vincent Tan Quotes
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.
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Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.
