Gene Luen Yang Quotes

When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.

Joe Henderson

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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Andy Dunn

LeadershipTimePeopleManagement

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

Melissa Etheridge

StrengthHeartDiversityFeelSee

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

Matthew Heineman

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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Alvar Aalto

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The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

Masayoshi Son

YouSystemJapanMuchPensionTies

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

Mo Ibrahim

GovernmentPeopleMedicineHelpMay

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Brian Eno

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Sylvia Plath

BathKnowHotThingsMustCure

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

Phife Dawg

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I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

Peter Davison

ProudKnowWillNeverReasonWould

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