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.

Mary H.K. Choi

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• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Think
  • You
  • Less

• 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.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Strength
  • Someone
  • Skills

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Underdog

• While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Day
  • Better
  • Speech

• Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

  

  K. Flay
  • You
  • Dark
  • Places

• I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Pretty
  • Fan
  • Big

• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Faith
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• 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.

  

  David F. Houston
  • May
  • War
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Army

• 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.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • She
  • Shoes
  • Mirror

• 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.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Believe
  • School
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Kids

• Under pressure, I don't go down, I go up.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Up

• It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

  

  James Lipton
  • Up

• My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Proud
  • Player
  • Sports

• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

  

  Sallust
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Friendships

• I think a lot of Africans in my generation, and especially those of us who have spent time overseas before coming back, are quite comfortable moving between the two worlds, though always with a lens of, 'What can we do to help our countries or regions?'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Time
  • Help
  • Moving

• We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in. And some people literally give their life for what they believe in. As a Christian, that is something I really admire. I want to be a part of spreading that message.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

  

  Jane Green
  • Heart
  • Home
  • America

• 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.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Friendships