Susan Choi Quotes
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.
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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.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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Worauf bin ich stolz und darf ich stolz seyn als Künstler?Auf den Entschluss, der mich auf ewig von (29) allem Gemeinen absonderte und isolirte.
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The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It's much harder to get back on and get a job when you're unemployed. But from my own experience, my advice would be keep the faith, be yourself, and don't be afraid to say 'no.' It's the only power we have!
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.
