Amy Tan Quotes
I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
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I think I need security.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
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I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
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Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.
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I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.
