Kelvin Yu Quotes
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
Quotes to Explore
-
No one should be left to suffer alone.
-
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.
-
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
-
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.
-
I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
-
Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
-
I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
-
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
-
My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
-
I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
-
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
-
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.
-
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
-
No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
-
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
-
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
-
Thanks to depression - that alpinism of the indolent - we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.
-
My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
