Amy Chan Quotes
People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
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I wish I'd drunk more champagne.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the right thing is wrong. I mean, I'd like it to be that way, but I've never allowed it to influence my actions.
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People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.
