Elizabeth Tan Quotes
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now.
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I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.
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We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
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California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
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Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
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We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.
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Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.
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We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.
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Pity's tears are spontaneous.
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Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.
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If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.
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Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.
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Spontaneous dates are the best.