Tao Lin Quotes
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I love books.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
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I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
