Su-chin Pak Quotes
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
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You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
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I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
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In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
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Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.
