Andrew Yan Quotes
All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I'm a real optimist.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
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When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.
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Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
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Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
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I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.
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All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.
