Amy Tan Quotes
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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I think it's generally a bad idea for the Fed to be the arbiter of asset prices. The Fed doesn't really have any better information than other people in the market about what the correct value of asset prices is.
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Thoughts without words… Can that be?
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
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The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
