Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.Gene Luen Yang
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
Nancy Kerrigan -
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
Beau Willimon
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson -
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Jack Adams -
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
Danica Patrick -
I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
Veerappa Moily -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
Olivia Colman
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz -
The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
Tammy Blanchard -
Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
Omar Epps -
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
Gary Zukav -
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith -
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
Jay Inslee -
No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.
Lady Gaga -
I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.
Gene Luen Yang