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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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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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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Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.
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Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
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You can't trust actors.
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If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.
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Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.
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It was like my part-time job as a kid to be an adventurer... in my head. I used to sword-fight in the garden and in the park - with my Nan, of all people, with my Nan who can barely walk! I used to make her run around, and I'd go around destroying these trees and cones and stuff.
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I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
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I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.
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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.
