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 ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.
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A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
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The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.
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My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.
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I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.
