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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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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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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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."
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People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
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When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.
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Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
