Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Day

• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Food
  • Universe

• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Years
  • Presence

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Crazy

• Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

  

  Dan Carter
  • People
  • Home
  • Looking

• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Child
  • Wood
  • Carpenter

• The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

  

  John Garamendi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...

  

  E. B. White
  • Devil
  • Mood

• It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Choices
  • Show

• I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

  

  Henry Hudson
  • Force
  • Crew
  • Persuasion

• The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

  

  Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Work