Dat Phan Quotes
We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.
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Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
