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.
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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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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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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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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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.
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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.
