Amos Yee Quotes

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As I mentioned in my previous homosexual video, never overlook the influence that can be caused by a single person. Everyone in the world, despite how much you score in a test, what job you're in or how intelligent you are, has influence.

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I had the opportunity to be greeted with a conversation with the principal, the minute I stepped into school. It was of course regarding the previous post remarking on the various facets of school, experienced by me. I never conversed with the new principal that had just come in this year, but now I did. I'm glad I soaked up another facet of the school experience. It's ironic that no one in the school who is considered a model student ever had a conversation with the principal, and it is the critical, naughty, rebellious ones that do. It's rather odd that he seems to prefer acknowledging bad rather than good.

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And after this episode, as I sat on the floor trembling in fear, my grandmother, instead of berating her son for his horrid behaviour, went up to me and said to me in Chinese 'He's just doing this because he cares for you, you should behave yourself and not make him so angry'

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Then ultimately, having developed a subversiveness that had transcended anything that I had as a child, knowing that I'll be completely uncomfortable wearing those clothes, it would probably act as a distraction in court, and the fact that of course it looked absolutely wretched, I refused to comply, and so went out of the toilet and told him: "It's either I'm going to wear the black shirt, otherwise, I'm going to wear pyjamas."

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Change your hairstyle whenever you want, and whenever you feel like it, that is all.

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I've learnt a lot. But it's kind of like a starving child in Africa who has been hunted by wild animals daily. It's quite miserable, but you sort of learn survival skills that you can't learn anywhere else. But would I want to return to such a scenario? No.

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The most common thing I hear from teachers is that I'm not 'mindful of my words' because whatever I say always comes out as condescending and insulting to them. However, I think my fellow teachers misunderstood the point, those words were so obviously meant to be insulting. So in that regard, I am actually very mindful of my words.

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When somebody fucks with you, don't mourn your sorrow, cower in a corner and contemplate suicide. Talk about it, reveal your experience and your problems, and if you have the chance (which seeing the abundance of social networking sites available, you probably will), find various ways to publicly humiliate him, so he can never dare to fuck with you again, and you can encourage other people to do the same.

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All of that to gain a piece of paper, that minimally guarantees a job of stability, a job where one follows a daily routine and gets a monthly salary, and a job, in my opinion, of sheer boredom and unhappiness. And they with the piece of paper, claiming that they have faired better in their lives, compared to fellow hawkers and construction workers. But I retort, at least they didn't spend up to 10 years in a place they didn't like, filling their brains with knowledge they never wanted. Some people say it's a life they want, not for me. Some people they say it is worth going to school for over 10 years for such a life, no it isn't.

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Of course he could do nothing about what I had wrote because it was the last day of school, and so he left me, saying he was still 'gracious' enough to let me continue with the prom, and letting me off scot-free, the way it should be.

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