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.Andrew Yan
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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.
Tamron Hall -
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes -
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Adam Hochschild -
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.
Kate Winslet -
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.
Kailash Satyarthi
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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.
Samantha Shannon -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
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.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
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.
Taron Egerton -
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
Kara Swisher -
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.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
Lady Gaga -
Equality for women is progress for all.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Rand Paul -
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
Vince Cable
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It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London -
Most of my friends are from the music scene.
Jim Sturgess -
Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
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.
Andrew Yan