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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Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...
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I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.
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As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
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People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
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When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.
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Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
