Sandra Oh Quotes

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

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• My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Power
  • Free

• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • America
  • Think
  • Myself

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Place

• I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Single
  • Day
  • Fish

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Evil
  • Religion

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Democracy
  • Process
  • Legal

• Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Tragic

• I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Together
  • Control

• The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Death
  • Question
  • Agenda

• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Want
  • Ourselves

• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Key
  • Life Is A

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. ... He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Ignore

• I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Freak

• All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Done
  • Mean
  • Film