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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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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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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If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
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When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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Loved people are loving people.
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I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
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We think that there really is racial bias in determining who people want to date.
