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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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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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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I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
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O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.
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If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
