Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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Obviously the Senate is a federal office, but to get California's economy moving again we need to do some things in the federal arena.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
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Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.
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My family's a ruling family.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.
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Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.
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Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.
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I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats.
