Yi So-Yeon Quotes
Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
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Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
