Susan Choi Quotes

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

Susan Choi

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Cancer
  • Something
  • Almost

• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Certainly
  • Itself
  • Lends

• On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Direction

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Why
  • Choose

• I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Trying
  • High
  • Black

• There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • True
  • Free
  • Picture

• If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Light

• If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Magic

• I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

  

  Beth Gutcheon
  • Book

• I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

  

  Dwight Howard
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

  

  Luther Allison

• Don't get me wrong, I'm very good, I'm a loyal person and I would never treat anyone badly - what goes around comes around. But I do go for the bad boy. I haven't outgrown that.

  

  Kierston Wareing
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Boy

• I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

  

  Graham Nash
  • People

• There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • World
  • Light
  • Feelings

• As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford

• There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Truth
  • Evil

• You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.

  

  Moses Malone
  • Pride
  • Doing
  • Hard

• I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

  

  Susan Choi
  • Past
  • Unhappy
  • Happening