Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

Jill Scott

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

Joan Rivers

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A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

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Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

John Podhoretz

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I'm sick of people who supported Trump saying, 'Get over it. You lost.' That's not how America works. We get to critique him the same way they constantly fought Obama. As long as I have a platform, I will continue to speak up because it's my responsibility.

Stan Van Gundy

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You have a losing team, you change the coach.

Mike Coffman

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I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Jared Leto

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

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One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Debbie Millman

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I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.

Bradley Cooper

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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Annie Jump Cannon

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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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