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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Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
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I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.
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To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.
