Andrew Yan Quotes
When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I don't like allegories.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
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When I was first thinking about what would become Venture for America, I was trying to figure out how to solve a problem - that our top young people were being driven to roles that did not, to me, address the needs of our time. That VFA would be a non-profit just seemed like the most efficient way to solve the problem.
