Chade-Meng Tan Quotes
If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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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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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
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I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
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If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.
