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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Just saw a chick riding a motorcycle.
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The best players are consistent.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
