Amy Tan Quotes

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Good
  • Age
  • Balance

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Small
  • Action

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Father
  • Age
  • Man

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Enjoy
  • Story
  • Part

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Great
  • Surround Yourself

• I don't have any regrets at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Regrets
  • Any

• A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Never
  • Conscience

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Done
  • She
  • History

• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  

  James Patterson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• 'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up
  • Time
  • Help

• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Time
  • Mother