Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Artist
  • Because
  • Making

• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I'm not a sun person.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Person
  • Sun

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

  

  Rand Beers
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Convince

• There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Songwriting

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Very
  • Artists

• It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Time

• We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Learn
  • Expect
  • Cartoonist

• I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • School
  • Reason
  • Shows

• I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • School
  • Fun
  • Science