Euny Hong Quotes

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.

Euny Hong

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I always get nervous. It's usually a good thing. I worry about the nights that I'm not nervous, actually.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

Meghan Markle

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I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.

John Waters

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I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

Tommy Caldwell

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If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

Mike Wallace

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As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.

Molly Ivins

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I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

Lisa Marie Presley

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One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

Jonathan Franzen

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When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

Jonathan Ive

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If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

Dorothy Fields

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To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

David Whyte

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I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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