Chung Quotes & Sayings

The danger of attending the extroverts' masquerade ball is that we surround ourselves with people who only like us for our disguise. — Michaela Chung

Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you've broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair. — Alexa Chung

I have googled 'how long does heartbreak last?' The result more popular than that was 'how long does heartburn last?' This implies people suffer from heartburn more than they do heartbreak which is a good thing because heartbreak sucks way fucking more than acid reflux ever could. — Alexa Chung

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married! — Connie Chung

but I couldn't get through the day wearing clothes belonging to elderly people. I am not Alexa Chung — Marian Keyes

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl. — Alexa Chung

We don't need to be in a designated role to take ownership of our environment. We can simply decide that we will be the giver, the helper, or the greeter wherever we are. We can even make a little game of it. We can tell ourselves: Today, I'm going to make at least three new people feel welcome. Or we can say: At this party, I'm going to gift two people a genuine compliment. — Michaela Chung

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived — Estella M. Chung

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out. — Alexa Chung

Zhou watched the fake Chung's face vanish to be replaced by another's.
"Look, Hsin," Zhou snarled, "this is your fault."
"No." Hsin's voice was a desperate whisper. — G.R. Matthews

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney. — Alexa Chung

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram. — Alexa Chung

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese — Estella M. Chung

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity. — Connie Chung

As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife. — Chung Mong-joon

Appreciating what I have is my medicine. — Betty Jamie Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean. — Alexa Chung

If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else. — Alexa Chung

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream. — Alexa Chung

We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. While — Michaela Chung

I knew I should have cleaned that musket! — Chung Ling Soo

Look natural, that is the best way. Flowers, plants, and animals are all content with how they look - satisfied with nature's endowment. Only human beings are eager to change what nature has given them. — Betty Jamie Chung

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons. — Chung Mong-joon

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well. — Ashley Madekwe

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant. — Alexa Chung

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby. — Connie Chung

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process. — Alexa Chung

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. — Jamie Chung

I've got an allergy to looking too neat. — Alexa Chung

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls. — Jamie Chung

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well. — Alexa Chung

To record merely patients' symptoms without considering their subjective and cultural experiences should never be the basis for diagnosis. — Man Cheung Chung

We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well. — Connie Chung

For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN. — Connie Chung

To accommodate her hats, the limousine roof was raised five inches over her passenger seat. — Estella M. Chung

I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things. — Alexa Chung

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful. — Alexa Chung

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good. — Joe Chung

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it will be okay. — Alexa Chung

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance. — Donal Henahan

I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment. — Chung Mong-joon

I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them. — Alexa Chung

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism. — Chung Mong-joon

Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. — Catherine Chung

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work. — Connie Chung

It helps to remember that people who possess the qualities we lack aren't any better than us. They weren't given a bigger piece of the awesome pie. They are just as flawed, but in different ways. — Michaela Chung

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors. — Connie Chung

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic. — Jamie Chung

That's the thing about introverts - we are always waiting to be invited to speak up about what matters to us. If the invitation comes too soon, we'll probably avoid the question, deflecting the focus to the other person. We might want to come closer, but we're not warmed up yet. We're — Michaela Chung

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages. — Connie Chung

With all the misconceptions about us, you would think that introverts are a small and freakish minority. As alluded to earlier, introverts make up roughly one-half to one-third of the world's population. Yet, the qualities that are as natural to us as breathing - the very same qualities that we share with millions of other introverts across the globe - make us feel defective. Just like me, many introverts come to believe that there is something wrong with them. — Michaela Chung

As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems. — Chung Mong-joon

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash. — Tsai Chih Chung

There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it. — Jamie Chung

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it. — Connie Chung

It was a genuine pleasure to research and write about a woman from whom, as Life magazine correspondent David Zeitlin put it, there is no letting down — Estella M. Chung

Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it. — Alexa Chung

I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it, — Alexa Chung

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself. — Jamie Chung

Often, introverts spend so much time trying to do as the extroverts do that we never ask ourselves what we really want. After years of denying our true desires, it can be difficult to separate what we want from what the world tells us to want. — Michaela Chung

Why did Park Chung-Hee launch his political career in 1961 by lambasting Korean history? Why did he follow up two years later by saying, "Our five thousand years of history was a continuation of degeneration, crudity, and stagnation" and "We should set ablaze all our history that was more like a storehouse of evil"? — Chong-Sik Lee

It was genuinely horrible. I stopped using Twitter for a while because I got so much s**t about being anorexic. And Im not. — Alexa Chung

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me. — Alexa Chung

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap. — Billy Crystal

The report helpfully provided that Quakers are a religious group that pride themselves on their nonviolent beliefs. That was a stupid principle on which to found a religion, Chung-Cha thought. One could not rule out violence, because violence was often necessary. And since other religions routinely employed violence, those that did not were in constant danger of being rendered extinct. — David Baldacci

I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird. — Alexa Chung

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. — Joe Chung

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own. — Alexa Chung

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false. — Connie Chung

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights. — Connie Chung

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model. — Alexa Chung

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace. — Chung Mong-joon

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years. — Alexa Chung

I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. — Alexa Chung

Being Chinese immigrants in the United States, it was important for my parents to maintain ties that went back a long time. They led by example. My dad didn't bring his work pressures home. We were always aware of them and would go as kids to his office and run around. But when he came home, he was able to leave things behind, at least from our perspective, and focus on us. — Chien Chung Pei

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated. — Joe Chung

Childhood is like that, so full of treasures. I've tried to bring as many of those treasures with me, into adulthood, as possible. Otherwise, what is it to be grown? Is learning to die, one day at a time. — Sonya Chung

Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be. — Connie Chung

Every season can be allergy season, depending on what you're allergic to. — Clara Chung

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene. — Connie Chung

It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them. — Alexa Chung

Where will this all end up? Will we completely lose our ability to be private, respectful, subtle? Will romance die? Often I long for a simpler time when break ups weren't made a trillion times worse by photo tagging, and rather than spelling it out for people you could be irritated by something and not feel as though you had to voice your gripe with convenient hashtags such as #dogaccidents, #cake and #snow in case it becomes a trending topic. — Alexa Chung

Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains. — Park Chung Hee

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary. — Alexa Chung

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me. — Alexa Chung

Extroverts are not superior to introverts, and vice versa. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. — Michaela Chung

I think Maje typifies that French vibe where it's simple items that are very practical, very wearable but also, like, incredibly chic and expensive-looking. — Alexa Chung

The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president. — Chung Mong-joon

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being. — Alexa Chung

As much as the world tries to tell us otherwise, our free time is ours to spend how we wish. This can be a tricky concept for introverts to fully embrace. We've been chastised so much for our personal preferences that we feel obliged to ignore them. — Michaela Chung

FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation. — Chung Mong-joon

Oh wondrous,' murmured Lin Chung. 'Oh, water, mistress of earth, valley spirit, eternal feminine!'
'Taoism again?' Phryne leaned close to hear what he was whispering.
'From the "Tao Te Ching." The old Master should have seen this. All made by water, the female, cold, moon principle.'
'Yin,' said Phryne. 'This is the womb of the earth.'
'Indeed.' He took her hand. 'Completely foreign to all male, hot, sun creatures.'
'Like you?'
'Like me. Yang can only admire and tremble.'
'Come along.' She led him into the centre of the huge space. 'We don't want to get lost in the earthmother's insides. — Kerry Greenwood

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'. — Alexa Chung

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. — Connie Chung

If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself. — Alexa Chung

I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day. — Alexa Chung

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin. — Joe Chung

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning ... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. — Connie Chung

Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog — Estella M. Chung

Squires thought her need for alone time was a sign of depression. In the end, it was a lack of solitude that triggered her descent into depression. Like Squires, many introverts receive the wrong message about solitude.

Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. — Michaela Chung