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.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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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.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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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.
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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.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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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.
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My children haven't even seen most of my movies.
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Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
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Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.
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We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.
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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
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It's all mental. I just have to worry about my game.
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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
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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.
