Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Chang-Rae Lee

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• I'm in a constant state of gratitude.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Gratitude
  • State
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• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
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• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crimes
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• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
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• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Faith
  • Decision
  • Woman

• Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.

  

  M. K. Hobson
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• Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

  

  Anish Kapoor
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• I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Brain

• ...the key factor in industry is creativity. I said there are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Creativity

• As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Time
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• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
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• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Country
  • America
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• I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • God
  • Home
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• I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

  

  Aviva
  • Done

• In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

  

  James E. Faust
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• The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

  

  Jan Karon
  • World
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• It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Movie

• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Trying
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• I would expect the family would continue to play a critical role in leading Fidelity. However, the company does not necessarily have to be run day-to-day by a family member. It will be run by the person who is determined to have the right skills and chemistry.

  

  Edward Johnson, III
  • Family

• This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It's here that you realize, as people, we're all equal.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Success
  • Curiosity
  • Comes

• I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Writing
  • War
  • Korean