Y. C. James Yen Quotes
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.
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Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
