Amy Tan Quotes
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Quotes to Explore
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.
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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
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I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.
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Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
