Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
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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've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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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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I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.
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I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.
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My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
