Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
Quotes to Explore
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
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Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
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The story of Dunbar shows what can happen in spite of huge legal, societal, and professional hurdles. It shows what is possible when a group of people focus and band together to make something better. Dunbar shows what happens when a stable middle class exists. And Dunbar shows us that politics pollutes education.
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Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
