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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

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• I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:

  

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• So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

  

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• Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.

  

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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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