Nia Long Quotes

I want to raise my children in a safe country. I want to help the children in the world who do not feel safe. I know what it feels like to feel unsafe. We need to do way better. Our country needs to do better.

Nia Long

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• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Born
  • Name
  • Fathers

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Missing

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Job
  • Want
  • Try

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Play

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

  

  Archimedes
  • Distance

• I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • World

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Black
  • Blue
  • Pink

• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Truth

• I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Message

• I want to raise my children in a safe country. I want to help the children in the world who do not feel safe. I know what it feels like to feel unsafe. We need to do way better. Our country needs to do better.

  

  Nia Long
  • World
  • Country
  • Children