Andrew Chan Quotes
I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
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I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.
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I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.
