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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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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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 have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I think it's just amazing to be in a group of women, in a group of people that you can spend enough time with them to really get to know people and be inspired by them and learn something new about them every day.
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.
