Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.
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Actors make less than you think.
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The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.
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While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
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When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
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My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.
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Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.
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It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
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As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.
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Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
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I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break.
