Ren Ng (Yi-Ren Ng) Quotes

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

Ren Ng

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • God
  • Fall

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

  

  Sam Robards
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Acting

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
  • Real
  • May

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Know
  • Understand

• I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Family
  • She
  • Father

• Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

  

  Lisa Randall

• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • God
  • Father
  • Night

• If you don't accept me at my David Blaine, you don't deserve me at my Criss Angel.

  

  Trixie Mattel
  • David Blaine
  • Criss Angel

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sun
  • Foreign oil
  • Efficient energy

• Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

  

  Ren Ng
  • Passion
  • Study
  • Photography