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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has bec...
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, ...
TAO LIN

My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
TAO LIN

A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automa...
TAO LIN

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before an...
TAO LIN

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
TAO LIN

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those...
TAO LIN

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
TAO LIN

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depre...
TAO LIN

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of tim...
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, ...
TAO LIN

I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same play...
TAO LIN

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w...
TAO LIN

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian...
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
TAO LIN

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the a...
TAO LIN

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean,...
TAO LIN

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that

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A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or ...
TAO LIN

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like...
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does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when...
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It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half t...
TAO LIN

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape
of a helicopter the same size as the he...
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The late-afternoon sky, in Paul's peripheral vision, panoramic and mostly unobstructed, appeared rur...
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In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her ...
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I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of...
TAO OKAMOTO

When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.
TAO SAYING

I realized that the soldier plays a major role in building the army from the moment I started my ser...
ZHANG TAO

We also need to develop our bond market and adhere to a scientific development approach to ensure a ...
ZHANG TAO

Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like ...
TAO OKAMOTO

This is a landmark move for China, to partially open the door in its capital account. The significan...
DONG TAO

We think that almost all central banks in the region are likely to take a breather from the rate hik...
DONG TAO

The austerity program ... slowed bank loans and undermined the cash flows of weak developers. Howeve...
DONG TAO

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses availabl...
TAO OKAMOTO

I do not believe that 0.9 percent is sustainable, especially given the price liberalization in areas...
DONG TAO

The month-on-month numbers are just totally useless unless the seasonal factor has been applied.
DONG TAO

The biggest beneficiary of all this is the United States. Look, a Barbie doll costs $20 but China on...
DONG TAO

This highlights a re-accelerating economy led by consumption and investment.
DONG TAO

These are unprecedented surplus volumes, reflecting the structural changes of China becoming the fac...
DONG TAO

I don't think the world can tolerate such a massive surplus.
DONG TAO

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following governmen...
DONG TAO

This is a day for celebration. But tomorrow when Hong Kong wakes up, it will still face structural c...
DONG TAO

Too many organizations caused certain inconveniences to the management. The integration will help Mi...
WANG TAO

It is necessary for tourist agencies to solace tourists who had unpleasant journey due to impersonal...
YANG TAO

There is increasing chatter that when the in-patient payment system comes out in a couple of weeks, ...
TAO LEVY

We need to be very cautious about large fluctuations in the exchange rate.
ZHANG TAO

Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.
TAO SAYING

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also.
TAO SAYING

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.
TAO SAYING

Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the...
TAO SAYING

What is in the end to be thrown down, Begins by being first set on high.
TAO SAYING

We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. ... Th...
TAO SAYING

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
TAO SAYING

The journey is the reward.
TAO SAYING

in motion be like water... at rest, like a mirror. resound like the echo; be subtle, as though none...
TAO SAYING

Considering the country's current rampant industrial accidents, the penalty is still moderate. Lenie...
WANG TAO

I don't think Beijing is overly concerned. After all, human rights had a much more prominent role in...
TAO WENZHAO

This is economic revision makes the figure closer (to actual GDP), but still there is underestimatio...
DONG TAO

The roles of the Pearl River Delta region in the East-West cultural exchanges since the early 17th c...
TAO CHENG

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
TAO TE CHING

To know you have enough is to be rich.
TAO TE CHING

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and gen...
TAO TE CHING

Do your work and then step back: the only path to serenity.
TAO TE CHING

Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army...
TAO TE CHING

When spring comes the grass grows by itself.
TAO TE CHING

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
TAO TE CHING

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
TAO TE CHING

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
TAO TE CHING

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
MAYA LIN

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all thei...
JEREMY LIN

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y...
MAYA LIN

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was...
GRACE LIN

When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many yea...
GRACE LIN

I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done bette...
JEREMY LIN

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
LIN YUTANG

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The w...
LIN YUTANG

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of...
LIN YUTANG

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire...
LIN YUTANG

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the ...
LIN YUTANG

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement an...
LIN YUTANG

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
LIN YUTANG

...by association with natures enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. There is a way of ...
LIN YUTANG

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
LIN YUTANG

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summ...
LIN YUTANG

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire f...
LIN YUTANG

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
LIN-CHI

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dre...
LIN YUTANG

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
LIN YUTANG

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn...
LIN YUTANG

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
LIN YUTANG

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked ...
LIN YUTANG

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says...
LIN YUTANG

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wi...
LIN YUTANG

From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all ...
JEREMY LIN

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
MAYA LIN

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really...
JEREMY LIN

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, fam...
LIN YUTANG

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec...
MAYA LIN

It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.
LIN DAN

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.
LIN DAN

I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers,...
JEREMY LIN

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think...
MAYA LIN

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in th...
LIN YUTANG

Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things tha...
JEREMY LIN

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must ...
LIN BIAO

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I...
LIN SHAYE

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We w...
MAYA LIN

After recent Nasdaq falls, Taiwan investors now are worried about the third-quarter profit performan...
ALBERT LIN

I would much rather buy Nokia on weakness than chase short-term strength, ... The market is anticipa...
ALBERT LIN

The market is intrigued by growth in Asia and but investors are divided on whether it's sustainable,...
ALBERT LIN

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.
ALBERT LIN

Texas Instruments reaffirmed that some of the fears in the marketplace were unfounded.
ALBERT LIN

Even if all global music revenue went through a mobile phone, it would barely lift the mobile market...
ALBERT LIN

Looking at the results leads me to say that the probability for cell phone unit sales to continue su...
ALBERT LIN

But they need to improve their relationship with Motorola for this product to succeed.
ALBERT LIN

The earnings are pretty good, but people are worried about the company's guidance. There's a big dif...
ALBERT LIN

What's hot in cell phones last year isn't going to be hot this year. Nokia and Motorola are on the r...
ALBERT LIN

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove tha...
JEREMY LIN

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not go...
JEREMY LIN

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studyi...
MAYA LIN

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
JEREMY LIN

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on ...
JEREMY LIN

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and...
LIN DAN

Of course, in China, there's already plenty of people who like badminton. I'm hoping more fo...
LIN DAN

I love badminton, and representing China is an honour for me.
LIN DAN

Badminton is a cruel sport.
LIN DAN

Badminton is not only about winning. What is important to me is about playing hard, doing my best an...
LIN DAN

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other...
LIN PARDEY

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dr...
LIN YUTANG

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
LIN YUTANG

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I ju...
MAYA LIN

I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To...
JEREMY LIN

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue bo...
MAYA LIN

Before I turned 30, through a lot of hard work and support, I won many badminton titles. But after t...
LIN DAN

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s...
MAYA LIN

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought...
LIN SHAYE

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
BONNIE LIN

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any les...
MAYA LIN

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living,...
LIN YUTANG

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.
LIN YUTANG

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed t...
LIN YUTANG

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas...
LIN YUTANG

The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he s...
LIN YUTANG

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us ...
LIN YUTANG

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
LIN YUTANG

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful hea...
LIN YUTANG

Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we i...
LIN YUTANG

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man ...
LIN YUTANG

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.
LIN YUTANG

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go...
LIN YUTANG

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The w...
LIN YUTANG

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it,...
JEREMY LIN

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when...
MAYA LIN

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how t...
LIN YUTANG

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
LIN YUTANG

A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going, and a perfect traveler does not know whe...
LIN YUTANG

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the go...
LIN YUTANG

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
LIN-CHI

The biggest problem for badminton is wind direction and lighting. If those problems are not solved, ...
LIN DAN

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The w...
LIN YUTANG

If MCI can take its brand, which is still substantial, and gain more customers, it would be more att...
ALBERT LIN

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hangin...
MAYA LIN

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew,...
JEREMY LIN

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was u...
MAYA LIN

I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, 'Man, it's about time a Chinese person coul...
LUDI LIN

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World...
MAYA LIN

Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in th...
JEREMY LIN

The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time an...
LIN YUTANG

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they'r...
MAYA LIN

By the time we get to 2006 or 2007, there will be a ton of new service providers offering wireless v...
ALBERT LIN

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the dr...
JEREMY LIN

Investors' heightened attention will make it easy for the proposed fund to attract investment.
CUI LIN

Our system scans the database each night to identify customers who signal their need for attention. ...
C.F. LIN

We have no choice but to train nursing workers to provide all non-medical services to the patients a...
ZHU LIN

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, it's more the way in which you believe it and pr...
LIN YUTANG

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is a nobler art of leaving things undone…. The ...
LIN YUTANG

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the wa...
MAYA LIN

Three years ago I had a vision about doing a film that talked about entertainment in Hong Kong - I s...
ANDREW LIN

China Airlines does not have to borrow from the banks to buy planes by renting them from leasing com...
ANDREW LIN

The impact of this global initiative on global e-commerce will be profound. The GS1 HK Data Pool ena...
ANNA LIN

This seamless and integrated business process will help position Hong Kong as the premier hub for lo...
ANNA LIN

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need dire...
JEREMY LIN

I look at it and decide, 'You need to be a bunny rabbit' or whatever.
LIN DUTTON

They went up there, and then they ran down here, and they went up the big evergreen, and then they w...
LIN DUTTON

I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha...
LIN DUTTON

Semiconductor shares pushed the market higher and we think the second quarter probably won't be as s...
KEVIN LIN

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of ...
LIN BIAO

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
MAYA LIN

If MCI can take its brand, which is still substantial, and gain more customers, it would be more att...
ALBERT LIN

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
MAYA LIN

It's an astonishing display of talents and styles, and I think it's far superior graphically to adul...
LIN OLIVER

We have reached a settlement with CNN. The amount of the settlement is both confidential and, under ...
LIN WOOD

I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

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