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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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.
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I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
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If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years. Would we know we were together?
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
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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.
