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.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Done
  • Business
  • Strong

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Miserable
  • Papers
  • Resignation

• 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.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Going
  • Sing
  • Make Money

• It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Cancer
  • Australia

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Father
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• I'm a real optimist.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Real
  • Optimist

• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Band
  • Rock
  • First

• Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Moments

• The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

  

  Ann Cleeves
  • Lighthouse

• Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. You will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that faith.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • People
  • Children
  • Joy

• The future is in our power. Let us, then, each morning, resolve to send the day into eternity in such a garb as we shall wish it to wear forever. And at night, let us reflect that one more day is irrevocably gone, indelibly marked.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Night

• Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Up
  • Long
  • City

• 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.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People