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 been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
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I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.
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The racket was coming over what used to be our public radio station, WAMC out of Albany, but the familiar reassuring voices of normality were long gone. Some febrile evangelist was railing from the Book of Revelation.
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I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
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The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
