Amy Tan Quotes

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Amy Tan

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MyselfGratefulImaginationIdeas

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

John Hench

WorkGoodMeColorThoughtLearn

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

Sigrid

MusicYourselfYouChooseDifferent

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Lorraine Toussaint

LifeThinkMy LifeDoingSomewhere

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

Donald Pleasence

WorkMeCareerHorrorPointWorking

WWE is there for the soldiers.

Bobby Lashley

SoldiersWWE

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

Pepa

MusicSongYouOutWholeJust

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Ligotti

HumorMindBlackHumanityPerson

We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up.

Tyler Cowen

DreamsViewAmericaYearInequality

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

Tim Howard

WorkWorldEasyYouWrongGroup

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.

Nick Vujicic

SchoolWorldHigh SchoolYouMouth

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Mort Walker

DayWarThoughtEvery DayRoutine

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Mark Morris

PerformanceRecording

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