Nia Long Quotes
I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.
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Chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons should never be used.
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You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
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Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.
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I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.
