Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.
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There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.
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There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
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I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
