Andrew Yang Quotes

I grew up a skinny Asian kid who was often ignored or picked on. It stuck with me and branded my soul. As I grew up, I tried to stick up for whoever seemed excluded or marginalized.

Andrew Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: May 15, 1955

Topics

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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.

John Hawkes

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I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

John Gallagher, Jr.

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I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

Mia Hamm

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I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

John Shirley

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I'm sort of a negative guy.

Stan Van Gundy

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A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I'd be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.

Summer Sanders

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I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

Stormzy

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There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

Rita Ora

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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

Michael Morpurgo

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Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

Debbie Millman

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I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

Ariana Grande

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It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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