Alan Yang Quotes

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

Alan Yang

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Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

Robert Herjavec

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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Maurice de Vlaminck

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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

Jean M. Auel

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My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.

Ana Ortiz

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I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Johnny Gimble

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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It's really exciting and pretty cool to see your own face on a playing card.

Christian Pulisic

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I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Colin Hay

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We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Peter Doig

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I think, with any kind of Netflix show, it's quite nice at the end of - just even watching the end of Episode 1, you have that kind of moment to yourself where you're like, 'Okay, I need to see the next episode here.'

Percelle Ascott

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Digital assets, including bitcoin, could save small businesses substantial transaction fees and provide an added layer of security to their payment processing.

Perianne Boring

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