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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
-
The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
-
The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
-
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.
-
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
Wit is cultured insolence.
-
I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'
-
I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.
-
Why am I working so hard? Going for 400 books, perhaps, but who's really counting?
-
He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
-
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
-
There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It's easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don't have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is death ends. This, it could go on forever.
-
For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first.
-
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
