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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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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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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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being
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I've never told anyone, but my ambition is to become the leading all-time scorer of free kicks in Serie A.
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Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
