Laurence Yep Quotes

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Spiritual
  • Brave
  • Honest

• I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Detroit

• The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Character
  • High

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.

  

  Babyface
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Father
  • Also
  • Screenwriter

• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Anger
  • Loneliness
  • Insecurity

• I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Father
  • Car

• The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Work
  • Job
  • Week

• I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.

  

  Jeff Perry
  • God
  • Together
  • Practice

• I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

  

  Johnny Knoxville
  • Want
  • Comedies
  • Dramas

• I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thought
  • Down
  • Street

• It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

  

  Lauren Holly
  • People
  • Home
  • Beginning

• When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

  

  Laurence Yep
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