John Cho Quotes
I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.
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What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
