Susan Choi Quotes

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

Susan Choi

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Like
  • Novel
  • Careers

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Women
  • Society
  • Stronger

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Writing
  • Understand
  • Writer

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Child

• Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Think
  • Attractive
  • Breast

• Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Empty

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Change
  • Government
  • Water

• I was living with my dad, and I loved it. But I could totally imagine that if I didn't move out quickly, I would end up staying there well into my 30s.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

  

  John Sladek
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Environment

• We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Vladimir Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think quite remarkable.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Support
  • Donald Trump
  • Vladimir Putin

• I think it's cool to be a rock star; I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Important
  • Cool
  • Rock

• I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Life

• Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Support
  • Environment
  • Graduate School