Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.
Quotes to Explore
-
We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
-
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
-
I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
-
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
-
I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
-
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
-
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
-
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
-
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
-
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
-
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
-
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
-
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
-
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
-
Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
-
With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
-
Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.
-
I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
-
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.
-
I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.
-
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
-
One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.
