Amy Chan Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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I love girl power.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I'm an inventor.
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I don't exercise.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.
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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
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When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.
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For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.
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Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.
