"I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever."

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Amy Tan

#Love Quotes #Stars Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I think that my emergence as a leader is closely related to the development of Taiwan's democracy. Taiwan's democracy was a gradual development. It was done from the bottom up. Therefore a lot of the more successful political leaders come from civil society, those that are closer to the grass-roots level of the public.”
“One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.”
“What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress- lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!”
“Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.”
“I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.”
“When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.”
“I think people should go their own ways.”

Source : Interview with Alireza Fadaie, bleacherreport.com. February 25, 2010.
“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”

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