Chade-Meng Tan Quotes
If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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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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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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Many intellectuals here in South Korea admire the North for standing up to the world. It’s a right-wing sort of admiration, really, for a resolute state that does what it says. More common than admiration are feelings of shared ethnic identity with the North. We are perhaps too blinkered by our own globalism to understand how natural they are.
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The master was never impressed by diplomas or degrees. He scrutinized the person, not the certificate. He was once heard to say, 'When you have ears to hear a bird in song, you don't need to look at its credentials.'
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World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.
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When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.
