Tao Lin Quotes
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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I buy way too many books.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.
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I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.
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I've worked hard to get here; I would like to thank all the people who helped me.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
