Andrew Yan Quotes
We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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Howard's unbelievably nutty, politically incorrect style is probably the single biggest influence on me.
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I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.
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I still think, when you go to the Garden, it's a completely different feeling. The energy - there seems like there's just a consistent buzz the entire game.
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One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
