Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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I joined a band to hit things.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
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Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
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The ‘right reading’ is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we’ve read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we’ve truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.
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All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
