Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

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• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

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• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
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• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
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• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
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• We don't go against the will of the people.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• 'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.

  

  Chris Sacca
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• I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

  

  Marlo Thomas
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• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
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• Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

  

  John McCain
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• Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
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