Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.
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I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.
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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
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More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
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For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.
