Andrew Yan Quotes
I wear a suit most days, in part because it's suitable for any type of meeting and in part because it takes the thought out of it.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
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Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.
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I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.
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I wear a suit most days, in part because it's suitable for any type of meeting and in part because it takes the thought out of it.
