Amy Tan
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VINCENT TAN Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece o... TONY TAN One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because ... VINCENT TAN ANDREW TAN Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred wit... GARRY TAN Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come... GARRY TAN Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thin... GARRY TAN SHAUN TAN ALEX TAN ALEX TAN ALEX TAN ALEX TAN ALEX TAN I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency i... TONY TAN LUCIO TAN TAN LE SHAUN TAN Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian business... TONY TAN In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese c... VINCENT TAN SHAUN TAN TAN LE You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN SHAUN TAN To ensure that Singaporeans can take advantage of opportunities, the government should continue to m... TONY TAN Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda. TAN MALAKA SHAUN TAN I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the de... TONY TAN Di mana pun dia berada. Dan kuharap dia tahu bahwa selama aku masih bernafas, aku akan selalu mencin... ILANA TAN Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimite... VINCENT TAN Fire can benefit, but also destroy. Media will corrupt but will also inform. Food is needed, yet it ... MARYALLE TAN SHAUN TAN ANDREW TAN We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and m... VINCENT TAN I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in t... VINCENT TAN ANDREW TAN ALEX TAN Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first... TONY TAN The objective of the plan is to give more flexibility to banks to provide services to their clients ... ROGER TAN SHAUN TAN SHAUN TAN SHAUN TAN Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where pati... TONY TAN I was surprised to find that the queen is actually a very friendly person. I felt very relaxed aroun... ALVINA TAN ANDREW TAN ANDREW TAN I picked this theme because children nowadays don't play such games anymore. I want to highlight to ... ALVINA TAN ANDREW TAN The start of the repatriation season is slow, as some 15 Afghan families comprising about 75 individ... VIVIAN TAN I've been in other close games, but not in one with a shot like Andrew's. 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MARYALLE TAN Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at th... TONY TAN There's still a very positive yield story for Indonesia. There's been strong buying of bonds and tha... CATHERINE TAN We have developed our own approach towards rehabilitating people, involving psychological rehabilita... TONY TAN The stronger ties between primary care providers and the patients they serve will produce better out... TONY TAN I think now we are simply strangers with some memories. TAN REDDING ANDREW TAN Together, they read on his papers a survey of the most common words found in suicide notes and mass ... SIHAN TAN SHAUN TAN SHAUN TAN SHAUN TAN ANDREW TAN SHAUN TAN
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby. 
I started writing stories in my spare time. 
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time. 
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. 
I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird. 
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and ... 
Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been. 
My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework. 
In my spare time I like to faint. I do it a real lot and I just think it's very funny when it happen... 
Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I ... 
You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my cale... 
I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm ... 
My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend. 
Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I look around all my possibilities 
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would ... 
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity ... 
My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. 
Would he were fatter! But I fear him not.
Yet if my name were liable to fear,
I do not know t... 
What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel li... 
My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she... 
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job... 
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up... 
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... 
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during th... 
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin... 
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn... 
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only chi... 
He brought his lips to my ear. "I would have been gentle with you, though." I shuddered as I closed ... 
I was terrified that this time the physically aggressive paparazzi would put both me and my baby in ... 
I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. 
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. 
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h... 
You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich and p... 
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a docto... 
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy... 
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Oth... 
Our enemies-my enemies-wouldn’t win. The demon lizards had hurt me for the last time. Now, they ha... 
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their l... 
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth... 
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up million... 
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not i... 
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure... 
The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a life... 
These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decid... 
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... 
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla... 
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became T... 
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo... 
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo... 
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more. 
I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement. 
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not ... 
I hope we business people can invest more aggressively outside Metro Manila, whether in real estate,... 
The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts hav... 
First and foremost it's the size, the market cap of these Chinese companies. The magic number here i... 
Smile when it hurts most. 
Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the succe... 
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative ac... 
I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me. 
There are people in my life who give me comfort when the going gets tough, as it invariably does. I ... 
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure scie... 
Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.