John Cho Quotes
Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
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While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
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Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.
