Allen Say Quotes
Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
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Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?
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I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
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I would like to thank Wolfgang Schreiber for his successful work with Bentley and Bugatti and the consistent further development of the two brands.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
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The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.
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Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.
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Most people seem to be interested in turning their dreams into reality. Then there are those who turn reality into dreams. I belong to the latter group.
