Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Mary H.K. Choi

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I love creative people.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Love
  • Creative

• It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur
  • Finding

• There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Picture
  • Going
  • Mama

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Soul
  • Song
  • You

• I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Wedding
  • Three
  • Vegas

• What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Art
  • Me

• I think we all have had better days in competition.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Better
  • Competition

• In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Wish
  • Blue
  • Ocean

• There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Ignorance

• I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Life
  • Space
  • Slavery

• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

  

  James Harvey Robinson
  • Passion

• Education is the social bedrock for the hopes and dreams of our children and the foundation that is necessary for their future prosperity.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • House
  • Wish
  • Church

• The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Smile
  • Gone
  • Bats

• We had no local representation whatsoever. They just said this is what is good for the listeners.

  

  Bruce Baum
  • Representation
  • Listeners

• Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi