Jihea Oh Quotes
I want to bring my best skills to the table, but even more important is loving people. I want to accept the people I work with for who they are.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
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My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
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The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.
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I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.
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There was something that was killing the people in the interior, in the forest area, of the country, and nobody quite knew what it was. That lasted a good three months before it was officially declared that it was Ebola virus. So it started off in Guinea and spread quite slowly, but then spread over the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.
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I want to bring my best skills to the table, but even more important is loving people. I want to accept the people I work with for who they are.
