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Amy Tan Quotes

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1952

Topics

Freedom Mind Enough Choice My Own

I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

Responsibility Believe Differences

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

Home I Am Thought Language Never

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

Time Society Revolution Thinking Far

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Man Law Law Enforcement World Chance

Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.

Woman Smart Me She Like Very

My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

Mother Parent Speech Teach Talk Her

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Peace War Support Without Cannot

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Women Performance Race Cost Only

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

Joshua Chamberlain

Life Live Great Service Best Reward

Hollywood's just not funny.

Funny Hollywood Just

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Nature Great Book Human Anything

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Good Myself Challenge Think I Can

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