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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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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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.
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The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.
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I'm not an intimate person, really.
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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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.
