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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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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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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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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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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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
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Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.
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Can a book carry you into the world you have to pretend doesn't exist most of the time, can a book carry you back out into what first made you alive.
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While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children (and adults) with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.
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Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.
