Chang Chen-yue Quotes
As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
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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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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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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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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
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What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
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I think some of the best music throughout the actual history of music itself came from cultures where they're not really looking for outside themes. It's developed from their hometowns - it's what they love and what they love to do.
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Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.
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As a songwriter, that's really what you hope for - to make that connection with your audience.
