Martin Yan Quotes

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

Martin Yan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: chef
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 22, 1948

Topics

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The other thing was that when I was at the University of Miami, we ran a pro-style offense and defense. I started each year by going to a pro training camp, I visited with various pro coaches, and I did this for five years.

Jimmy Johnson

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This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.

Jo Becker

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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

John Berger

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Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

John Yoo

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The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

Tony Goldwyn

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Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

Michelle Ryan

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At age 14, my paternal grandfather fled Poland to escape the pogroms that killed tens of thousands of European Jews. He worked full-time for a cobbler in Boston, making his way to California and eventually starting his own business in Taft - the Goldman Oil Supply Company.

Dianne Feinstein

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I like to paint nudes mostly.

Cleo Moore

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President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

Clint Hill

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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

Bobby Seale

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In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.

Anton Corbijn

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