Amy Tan Quotes
People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person - which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
-
I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
-
Ozzy has dyslexia.
-
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
-
There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
-
I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
-
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
-
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
-
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
-
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
-
I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
-
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
-
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
-
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.
-
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
-
I wanna work with filmmakers that love, are enthusiastic about their process - about the process - about their process and the environment of inclusion and collaboration. I want the people to be able to trust me, and I wanna be able to trust them.
-
I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
-
There's so much bullshit around now in pop and hip-hop, and everybody's talking about the same fucking shit, like get the fuck outta here. That shit is horrible. I don't hate anybody, but that shit pisses me off. It's bullshit. So I wanna change things up and make people go, "Aw, man, this is the hot shit. Eamon talks from the heart. He's real."
-
People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person - which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.
