Lisa Ling Quotes
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.
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Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
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My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.
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Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
