Andrew Tan Quotes

By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

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• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Morning

• To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Twitter

• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • House
  • Control
  • New

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Brainy

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Early
  • Others
  • Accuracy

• When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fear

• I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

  

  Flume
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Push

• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Step

• Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Military
  • Share
  • One Thing

• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • World
  • America
  • Opportunity

• The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Experience
  • Drawing
  • Logic

• I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Women
  • Law
  • Islamic

• Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.

  

  Ausonius
  • Virgo

• The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Business
  • America

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Children
  • Family
  • Future

• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  

  James Whistler
  • Heaven

• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Question
  • Confidence

• I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

  

  John Ridley
  • Violence

• Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

  

  William Jewett Tucker
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Ambition

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• When they ask who is your biggest influence, I always say Pharrell: whether it is music or fashion, I'm a big fan.

  

  Kris Wu
  • Music
  • Fashion

• By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

  

  Andrew Tan