Adrian Tan Quotes
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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The United States follows the pattern of men taking the financial risks even within a given field. Women physicians are three times as likely as men to work for the government or an HMO; men physicians are much more likely to be self-employed in a solo practice.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'
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I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.
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Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?
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We consider all our animals to be our kids.
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Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.
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At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.
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It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
