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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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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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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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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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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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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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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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
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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.
