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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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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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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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.
