Sandra Oh Quotes
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Love! Beyond measure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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I never get far from Well Being.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
