Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course.
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I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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I try to live every day and realize that there are so many folks working hard to try to get to where I am and how fortunate that I am.
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I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
