Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Mary H.K. Choi

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • People
  • American
  • Immigrant

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Working

• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Me
  • Something
  • Hungry

• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Singing
  • Never

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Love
  • Death

• I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Management
  • Planning

• Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Money
  • Together
  • Magic

• In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • City
  • New York

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• I'm very inspired by past music.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Past
  • Inspired

• The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Truth

• I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Truth
  • Evil

• A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Long
  • Free
  • Pet

• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Religious

• When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

  

  Barbara Ess
  • Earth
  • Hurt
  • Clever

• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Challenge

• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Courage

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • War
  • Ambition
  • Monster

• I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

  

  Mary H.K. Choi