John Cho Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.
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It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.
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I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.
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Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
