John Cho Quotes

My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• You have to be yourself.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  

  Barry Mann
  • College
  • Architecture
  • Year

• Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Interesting
  • Value
  • Military

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Rock
  • Better

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Read
  • Theater
  • Journalism

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Myself

• If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Hero

• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Suicide
  • Destroyers

• I’m very concerned about youth becoming addicted to nicotine through things like e-cigarettes … what we don’t want to see is a whole generation of children become addicted to nicotine from the use of e-cigarettes.

  

  Scott Gottlieb
  • Generation
  • Addicted
  • Cigarettes

• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Change
  • Taken

• My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.

  

  John Cho
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wife