Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Quotes to Explore
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
Ian Anthony Dale
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
Sally Hawkins
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
Laura Mvula
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
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My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
Benazir Bhutto
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All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
Saul Bellow
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Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
Dolores Huerta
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The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
