Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
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I've never said I was the best dancer, and I never said I was a good dancer.
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I was brought up in a very logical place,' said Linz, who had his bar mitzvah at Wilshire Boulevard Temple. 'But I think they would happen.
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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
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My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.
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My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
