Andrew Tan Quotes
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.
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I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style – her toughness and rigor.
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
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It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.
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It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.
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I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.
