"Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5"

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Amy Tan

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“I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.”
“Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built anyway for the games, everybody has kind of wishful thinking about what the afterlife of these spaces is going to be. If there is not demand for it before the Olympics, there's probably not going to be demand for it afterwards.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.”

Source : New Statesman, January 5, 2012.
“I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.”

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“I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.”

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“Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.”
“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”
“I think there is a misunderstanding about Indians' traditional views. India did send army into Goa, India did send an army into and fought a war in Kashmir in 1948, India did get Hyderabad by force... I think the narrow projection on the international... arena distorted India's image.”

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