Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

  

  LaToya London
  • She
  • Style
  • Same

• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Leader
  • Prophet
  • Operate

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Television
  • Structure

• I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Look
  • Say
  • Misbehave

• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Long
  • Experience

• Casting the body's vest aside,My soul into the boughs does glide.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Soul

• A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Country

• Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Wise

• I value my privacy a lot.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Value

• Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

  

  Leon Max

• Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

  

  James Gleick
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Air

• I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

  

  David Chase

• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • Life
  • Lion

• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

  

  Bill Bryson

• If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Time
  • Support
  • Republican

• A man is a lonely thing.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Lonely

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Caring