Elizabeth Tan Quotes
Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.
Quotes to Explore
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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The key is to accept what is and not allow yourself to be jerked between likes and dislikes, attachments and aversions. Accept what is, right now, whether it’s comfortable or painful.
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Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.
