Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
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I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
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Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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I like criticism. It makes you strong.
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Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.
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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.
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I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
