Nia Long Quotes
I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will and then they happen faster than you think they will.
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Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.
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I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.
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We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
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I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
