Kelvin Yu Quotes
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
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I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
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No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.
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Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.
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The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
