Adeline Yen Mah Quotes
Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
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I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
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I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.
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It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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I just love to sing and dance and act. Being on stage is an amazing feeling.
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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.
