Adrian Tan Quotes

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

Adrian Tan

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• Cells
• Reborn
• Reservations

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• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reading

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Voice

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Myself
  • Difficult
  • Fame

• I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Superhero

• The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Family
  • Problem

• Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Success
  • Learn
  • End

• If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

  

  Kajol
  • Me
  • Said
  • Salt

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Actor
  • Act

• I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • College
  • Proud

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• I put Compton on the map.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Put
  • Map

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Success
  • Man

• The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Live
  • Truth

• My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Schools

• I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Body
  • Bags
  • Chips

• Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Body
  • Half
  • Cells