Andrew Yan Quotes
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Quotes to Explore
-
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
-
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
-
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
-
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
-
You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
-
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
-
I don't do anything political on Sundays.
-
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
-
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
-
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
-
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
-
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
-
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
-
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
-
Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.
-
I am mentally strong.
-
In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
-
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
-
Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
-
Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.
-
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
-
Montaigne puts not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
-
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
