Thisismylife Quotes

#1. By the time Christmas came around, while all the other kids made cards, she had me sit in a corner and face the wall because I wasn't a "believer." (27)

Eddie Huang

#2. We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

Dave Ramsey

#3. Those strange creepy people, all picking at their little ... scabs," she had complained to me when Nathan was not around. "I hate this type of - and here I thought she used a lovely gem of a phrase - "unearned unhappiness!

William Styron

#4. Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no one ever gives me a straight answer. (The only thing anyone can agree on is that they still miss the island.)

Eddie Huang

#5. Landlords in New York are generally the scum of the earth. They're beneficiaries of the worst kind of nepotism, eating off the good business decisions of their parents. They have no compassion because they've never had to work for shit to know how it feels to need a fucking break. (256-257)

Eddie Huang

#6. It's when that fear goes away that you know you've found the right person to risk everything for.

Catherine Bybee

#7. Once again, my dad knew something I didn't. Looking back, I realize it wasn't just I was Asian. I was a loud-mounthed, brash, broken Asian who had no respect for authority in any form, wether it was a parent, teacher, or country. Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either. (148)

Eddie Huang

#8. Mon, they said they were going to 'fuck me up'!"
"No, we didn't, he fucked himself up."
"No one is fucking anyone! Who taught you to fuck people up? ...

Eddie Huang

#9. When you have fallen by the road side, the media do not offer a helping hand

Sean Smith

#10. I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#11. Everything comes clear and you see exactly how you're goonna win the game: by doing you....I found my voice and no one was going to take it from me. (124)

Eddie Huang

#12. I wanted to get free. (129)

Eddie Huang

#13. Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.

David Letterman

#14. We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

James Laughlin

#15. Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

Janeane Garofalo

#16. With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

Derek Blasberg

#17. My drumming is always an experiment.

Pat Mastelotto

#18. I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's the perk of being Chinese, you can walk through walls and no one really notices. (155)

Eddie Huang

#19. Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

Ada Louise Huxtable