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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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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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 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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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 love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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To those who have any intimate acquaintance with the laws of chemistry and physics the suggestion that the spiritual world could be ruled by laws of allied character is as preposterous as the suggestion that a nation could be ruled by laws like the laws of grammar.
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Fate is not in man but around him.
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Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
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I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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That was my fault. Basically it was just good defense and I made a bad play.
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We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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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.
