Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes
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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.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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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.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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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.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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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.
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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.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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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.
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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.
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My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
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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.
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I hate to shop.
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The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.
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Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
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I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation.
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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God's will can become your internal reference point from this day forward; it is your choice.
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Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.
