Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
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For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
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I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.
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We've shown a willingness to do the right thing, and we've shown a willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion. The problems are on the Republican side.
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The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
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If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.
