Sam Yagan Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
