Yi So-Yeon Quotes

I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

Yi So-Yeon

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Power
  • Help
  • Eye

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Up
  • You
  • Food

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Memories
  • Memory
  • Loss

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Ideas

• I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Up
  • Age
  • Growing

• You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Spiritual

• What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • Instruments
  • Forgetting

• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  

  David Hume
  • Friends
  • Society
  • Alone

• Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Growing

• We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Long
  • Country

• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Hero