"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know."

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Source : Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV, www.today.com. March 22, 2005.

Sandra Oh

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“I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.”

Source : Investor's Business Daily, March 2007.
“I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.”
“There live Christ and Nero in our hearts.”

Source : "Thinkings" by Antoni Lange,
“[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of timber are here on the Pacific slope. We are in the center of the best of them. Probably nowhere on earth does there exist a forest to compare in continuous grandeur and unqualified beauty with the Redwoods that are found along the Eel River and to the north.”
“Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.”
“No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.”
“Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.”
“Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.”

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