Quotes by Maya Soetoro-Ng - Page 1

Faith and optimism come from love.
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We all have a limited amount of good judgment.
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Good Judgment
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.
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Philosophically
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Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.
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Elders
Lessons
Down
Slow
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I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.
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Journal
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My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.
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People
Whole
Whole Family
Muslim
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As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.
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Scorn
Imperfections
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Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
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Academic
Riches
Bestow
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Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.
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Children
Personality
World
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Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.
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Meanness
Rare Occasion
Upset
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Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.
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Government
Caring
Hands
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
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Just Be
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I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.
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White House
Flavors
Reflected
Textures
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This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
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Privilege
Stretch
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That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.
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Children
Powerful
Way
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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
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Government
Country
Order
Fortify
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Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.
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Pride
Me Feel Everyone
Belonged
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We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
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Communication
Adulthood
Care
Empathy
Preparation
Responsibility
Social
Social Responsibility
Teach
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My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.
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Committed
Patriotic
Roots
Country Roots Always
Laid
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I'm half white, half Asian. I think of myself as hybrid. People usually think I'm Latina when they meet me. That's what made me learn Spanish.
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Latina
Myself Me People
Spanish
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I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
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Believe
Myopic
Needs
Order
Widely
Windows
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I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.
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Contradictory
Facets
Single Person
Seemingly
Selves
Varied
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Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
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Inspiring
Caring
Cases
Lead By Example
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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism.
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Believe
Hard Work
Successful
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It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.
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Anew
Conjure
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The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.
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Earth
Impact
World
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I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.
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Interconnectedness
World Me People
Narrowly
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My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.
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Bridges
Thoughtful
Being Used
Cared
Great Deal
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I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.
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World History
Benefit
Truth History World
Perspectives
Specifically
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You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.
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Government
Giving
People
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The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
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Birth
Birth Certificate
Certificate
Hospital
Sources
Women And Children
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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
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Love Faith Work
Work Hard
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One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.
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Different Ways
Newspapers
World Look See
Same Story
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I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
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Associated
Explore
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We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.
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Far Away
Isolation
Afford
Ripples
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Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.
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Available
Barack
Scholarship
Silver
Regular Guy
Silver Spoon
Spoon
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Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.
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Mom
Children
Parent
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The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her.
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Tapestry
Connects
Surprised
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My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.
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Certain
Friday
Islam
Absolutely
Communal
Connect
Except
Saw
Services
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I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.
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Better Off
Enormous
Handle
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I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.
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Abstract
Educational
Inspire
Remains
Initiatives
Poets
Work Hard
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My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
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Courageous
Frustration
Moon
Natural World
Life Love Great
Tremendous
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We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion, or ethnicities don't feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty.
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Boundaries
Layers
Welcome
Begin
Adds
Communities
Loosen
Individuals
Mixed
Multitude
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I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.
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Common Humanity
Fashion
Thinking
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And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.
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Children
Impact
Inspire
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