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
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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.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Dan Pink
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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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.
Orville Redenbacher
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
Tamer Hassan
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
Olivia Newton-John
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I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
Walter Alston
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
Karisma Kapoor
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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
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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.
Olivia Wilde
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I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.
John Kasich
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My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry
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Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.
William Penn
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
Kelvin Yu