Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
