Min Jin Lee Quotes

Let us do justice to them [the Jews].... Let us open to them every career in which ability and energy can be displayed. Till we have done this, let us not presume to say that there is no genius among the countrymen of Isaiah, no heroism among the descendants of the Maccabees.

What everyone knows" is the line between us and them.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

The first thing I think about when somebody says you're going to be the first Muslim is celebrate this moment.

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

I want titles: it's what I want and what I lack. I give everything for it.

I think having won a Super Bowl puts you on a different level. I know, for me, it's extremely important to win this ballgame.

It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.

X-Men has always been about finding your place in a society that doesn't want you.

I'm not a big fan of fame; I'm a big fan of success.

I was not driven by fame and fortune.

I don't really feel like rankings mean anything.

When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.

I don't see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there.

I am hungry for titles.

I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.

Winning all these trophies and having all this success gives you a voice.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it's important for me because not too many women can say they've... gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they've gotten anything like this.

Everybody wants to be a first round pick.

I want to be important.

Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.

Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.

You don't have doubts when you get offered 'Question Time.' You think, thank you very much.

My biggest hope for the future is that we're successful in delivering the treatment to people through the charity and that burns just become something that happens in people's lives but doesn't make them a misfit in society and exclude them and stop all their dreams and ambitions.

Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.