Antonia Eugenia Vardalos (Nia Vardalos) Quotes
We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is always pressure in football.
-
I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
-
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
-
I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
-
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
-
I'd love to make a thriller.
-
My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
-
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
-
I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
-
I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
-
Wild flowers grow where they will.
-
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
-
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
-
I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.
-
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
-
I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
-
Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
-
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
-
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
-
You cannot out-train bad nutrition. It's impossible.
-
Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.
-
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.
-
One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
-
We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.
