John Cho Quotes
When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'
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I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
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When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
