Y. C. James Yen Quotes
True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
Y. C. James Yen
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
Camille Claudel
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
Ian Somerhalder
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
Taye Diggs
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Jack Buck
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher
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ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
Naval Ravikant
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
Halsey
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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
Douglas Booth
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When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.
Scotty McCreery
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The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.
Kumail Nanjiani
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True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.
Y. C. James Yen
