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.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Sick
  • Name

• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Beauty
  • Most
  • Distress

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Truth
  • Doing
  • Truth Is

• I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Difficult
  • Attend

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• 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.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Me
  • Single
  • Popcorn

• In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Free
  • United States
  • Oyster

• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Women
  • America
  • Savage

• With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Why
  • Want
  • Year

• Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Experience
  • Act
  • Students

• My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Okay

• All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Me

• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Poetry

• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Tell

• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

  

  John Cusack
  • War

• Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Changed
  • Savage
  • Hills

• My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.

  

  Kelvin Yu