Dat Phan Quotes

#1. When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Dat Phan

#2. I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Dat Phan

#3. I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Venus Williams

#4. Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.

Dat Phan

#5. I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school ... who failed math.

Dat Phan

#6. Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.

Nick Drake

#7. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

Dat Phan

#8. I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.

Emeril Lagasse

#9. And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

Dat Phan

#10. Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

Dat Phan

#12. I'll definitely make you fall in love with me. So prepare yourself.

Peach-Pit

#13. We wanted to touch them with our action.

Connie Sellecca

#14. I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.

Kanye West

#15. Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

John Connolly

#16. It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

Dat Phan

#17. I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Vietnam, we take over by doing pedicure! That's how we take over. We take over one foot at a time, damn it - that's the plan of attack right there. We take over from the toe up, that's the plan. We spread over USA like fungus from the toe.

Dat Phan

#19. Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

Dat Phan

#20. When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

Shane MacGowan

#21. I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

Dat Phan

#22. Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Jason Epstein

#23. People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Leo Tolstoy