Lea Salonga Quotes
I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.
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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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Rather than support workers at home or investments in public schools, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan support the Bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. They want to hand over our schools to private corporations.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
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It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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Nostalgia is an illness
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.
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I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.
