John Cho Quotes
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.
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Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people.
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I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
