Nia Long Quotes

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

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• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • School
  • Friends
  • Decision

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• If you have less weight, you have less strength.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • You
  • Strength
  • Weight

• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Religion
  • Discipline

• There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Self
  • Selfish

• People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Mind your till, and till your mind.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Mind

• My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Moments

• I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• My children haven't even seen most of my movies.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Children

• I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Long
  • Writing
  • True

• Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

  

  David Korten
  • Wall

• Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Friendships

• The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

  

  Jason Katims
  • People

• Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • People
  • Today
  • Culture

• While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with nonapproved, non-Chinese peers outside school. That was fine with me.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Stress

• Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

  

  John Burdett
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Humility

• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

  

  Nia Long
  • Moments