Susan Choi Quotes

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

Susan Choi

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

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• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

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• There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

  

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• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

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• The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

  

  Barbara Olson
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• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

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• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  

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• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

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• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

  

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• I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

  

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• I've never worried about how long the song is.

  

  Adam Jones
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• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  

  Feist
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• Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'

  

  Rachael Ray
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• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

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• We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.

  

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• I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

  

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• I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

  

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• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

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• I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

  

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• Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

  

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• All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

  

  Susan Choi
  • Live
  • New York
  • Communities