Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

Harry Shum, Jr.

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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• I'm not ashamed to be gay.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Gay

• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • School
  • High

• When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Fun
  • Dad

• In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were not even a part of the conversation.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Home
  • Water

• You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Believe
  • Science

• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  

  James Spader
  • Good
  • Picture

• Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.

  

  Chris Lowell
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

  

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
  • Work
  • Power
  • Law

• Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• Tennis is a very interesting world. It's a sport of opportunities, but it's a sport of challenges as well. And for anybody to continue to progress, they have to understand what those challenges are.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Progress

• I hate to shop.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Hate

• God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades; God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades. More was each of these, yet they were, than man their servant seemed: Dead are all of these, and man survives who made them while he dreamed.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • God
  • Past

• “Do you mind if we stop at the Hip Hop Shop?” Bess asked pleadingly.

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Stop
  • Hip Hop Shop
  • Bess

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Down

• In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Superman
  • Plane