Andrew Chan Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
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I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.
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Glory and gore go hand in hand.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up.
