Alan Yang Quotes
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
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You get the older version of women that you've played before.
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What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.
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I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.
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It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
