Nia Long Quotes
I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Silence is my dignity.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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I was at a photo shoot, and I was wearing a cross necklace that my mom bought me, and somebody made a joke like, 'Why are you wearing a cross? Like you would be religious.' And then they took it away. I was really affected by that. The whole thing made me realize that I do want a cross with me at all times.
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By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
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My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.
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It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.
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Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge, and the memories attached to the songs will never leave you. Please hold on to everything. Keep every note, mix tape, concert ticket stub, and memory you have of music from your youth. It'll be the one thing that might keep you young, even if you aren't anymore.
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Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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If I stunk for some reason, you can always blame it on the character.
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I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
