Nia Long Quotes

I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

Nia Long

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• The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Fun
  • You
  • Doing

• While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Children
  • Trying

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Often
  • Fooled

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Soon

• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Time
  • Women
  • Best

• You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Time
  • Death
  • Pain

• Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

  

  Maluma
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Sister

• I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mom

• The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Abstraction
  • Apparatus

• I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Man
  • Best
  • Railroad

• There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Stop

• Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Relationship

• Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.

  

  Andy Clark
  • Line
  • Tool
  • User

• We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Leadership
  • inspirational
  • Commitment

• It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Home

• I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

  

  Nia Long
  • Religious
  • Commitment