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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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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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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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
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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.
