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I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was. ↗

— Amy Tan

#everything #i #makes #maybe #memory

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

— Amy Tan

#enough #expression #freedom #freedom of expression #had

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first

She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.' ↗

— Amy Tan

#anything #boy #commission #dumb #fine

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#because #breaking #law #people #policy

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#because #coming #enforce #illegal #immigration

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#aware #changes #designs #gradually #i

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#biggest #folk #making #really #records

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#get #hate #help #i #injustice

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#anytime #capitalism #communism #economics #extreme