Chang Chen-yue Quotes
As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
Quotes to Explore
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I like being unconventional.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
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As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
