Gene Luen Yang Quotes

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Secret
  • Vice
  • Gluttony

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • God
  • Movie
  • Easy

• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Daily
  • Connect

• I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Better
  • Regret

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Goals
  • Gym

• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Truth
  • Hope

• Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • You
  • Marriage
  • Independence

• I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • King
  • Alive

• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Changes
  • Possible
  • Own

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I sometimes have to look back and say, "Wow, this is amazing what has happened to me. I have been able to fulfill a lot of these dreams that I had when I was very young." It's a pretty amazing feeling. But at the same time it becomes addictive!

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Relationship
  • Potential

• 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Team