Alex Tan Quotes
Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.
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What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?
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Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.
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Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.
