Amy Tan Quotes
For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
Quotes to Explore
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I find the business world hard.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
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Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
