John Cho Quotes
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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Questlove is an artist who I respect because he constantly shifts within the idiom, challenging perceptions of hip-hop and black American culture.
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Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.
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Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.
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We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
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Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
