Andrew Yan Quotes
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
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Broadway is really my life.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
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When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.
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Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
