Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I was a superhero fan in the '90s, so I'm definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Increasingly, corporate nationality is whatever a corporation decides it is.

Robert Reich

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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

Jeffrey Brown

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I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

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I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Sienna Miller

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Good shows tend to be more fun to do. If you feel like you are doing something good and making a good show, it is a lot more enjoyable.

Travis Fimmel

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In the early days, I was living with Dee Dee for a little while, and he was never around then, either. He would always be out. He was kind of an energetic guy who was always on the run.

Tommy Ramone

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This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

Tom Tancredo

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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

Roger Ebert

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As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

Robyn Hitchcock

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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

Ronald Reagan

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Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

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