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 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've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.
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We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.
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I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
