Andrew Yan Quotes
I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I hate competition.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.
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Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
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I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.
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I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
