Adeline Yen Mah Quotes
I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
