Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

Mary H.K. Choi

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• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Lose
  • View

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• I don't think about records.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Records
  • About

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Child

• We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Live
  • Society
  • Picture

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Lost
  • Confused
  • Admit

• I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Always
  • Stage
  • Sense

• Vampires are super sexy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Sexy
  • Vampires
  • Super

• For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Heart
  • Political

• Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• I think we're going in the right direction.

  

  Jason Kidd

• There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Help
  • High