John Cho Quotes
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
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Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.
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I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.
