Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
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I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
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I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
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My brother's in comics. I work in media.
