John Cho Quotes
I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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All of us grow.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
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Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
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I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.
