Andrew Yan Quotes
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
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I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.
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FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
