Gene Luen Yang Quotes

A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 9, 1973

Topics

ProblemsYouWillAskAsianLiver

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Joel Kinnaman

LifeMindImpossibleThoughtKnow

I just try work out at least twice a week if I can.

Jennifer Garner

WorkWeekI CanTryOutTwice

The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.

Jeff Fortenberry

FamilyStrengthCommunityNation

May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.

Spike Milligan

RainBootsBackDownSocksOut

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Robert Wilson

ManGrowing UpTexasBootsYoungUp

When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.

Molly Shannon

FriendNew YorkCityHometownNew

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

WarPoetryGoMoreHeroismAlways

I'm really eager to play the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals, especially after my enjoyable visit to the city.

Chen Long

CityDestinationWorldDubaiPlay

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

NobodyMeetPrimeForcesSendEven

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

Shalom Harlow

FunNew YorkEnergyNewKindStage

As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.

Richard LaGravenese

YouChooseGoEditingOutShooting

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

James Thurber

FearDarknessSleepMatterSoft

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