Laurence Yep Quotes

I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.

Laurence Yep

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1948

Topics

CultureSchoolHigh SchoolBlackUp

We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.

Joe Manchin

ChangeCultureViolenceMass

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

Max Levchin

TrueAudienceFacebookBeingTried

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

John Hume

ChangePowerIdentityMindHands

We always mess around with riffs and stuff and kind of jam out during sound checks, but we never actually started playing covers live until we started goofing off a little bit more on stage.

Johnny Christ

LiveKindMoreNeverSoundStage

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

Steve Garvey

MarriageRelationshipWomanCommit

I'm not high maintenance.

Sienna Miller

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Simon Raven

AloneMeScholarshipBoringNothing

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Robert C. Merton

FatherParentsPeopleMeThinkGo

Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks.

Ruth Porat

WomenThinkRiseNowMoreWithin

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

Judi Dench

LoveDoingMostTheaterThing

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.

Dennis Bergkamp

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There's been a lot of lies written about me.

Davinia Taylor

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