Amira Lam Interview 2010 Quotes & Sayings

The woman leant forward, her eyes flashing, a smile both triumphant and tender curving her mouth.
"You are *my* daughter," she said. "Can there be any doubt that you will be brilliant -- audacious -- and free?"
The vision disappeared. She had been so vital, so overflowing with life and energy, that her going seemed to leave the room dark. — Zen Cho

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. — Jason Mraz

We all get waves of regret
sometimes
but instead of
dwelling
on what you can't change,
start focusing on what you can. — Alexandra Elle

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong

Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem. — Robert A. Heinlein

I smoked marijuana for 50 yearsIt opened my mind to a lot of things, and now its active ingredient, THC, relaxes me and eases my arthritis pain. I've concluded that marijuana should be legal — James Garner

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres

I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty desperate to get it released. We felt pretty proud of it, and it just escalated from there. We were thinking about playing some live shows, doing the soundtracks live. It was just trying to shine a little light on this 15 years of work we've done. — Stuart A. Staples

A thousand years a city, and a thousand years a forest. — Swami Vivekananda

Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love. — Thomas Merton

I'm a neat freak ... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? — Jann Wenner

Dear Teenage Self,

That guy you're crazy about,
Will ask you out
On a date
In about ten years, so don't fret
You'll get there yet.
But fate is cruel
On that day,
That feeling will have gone away. — Joyce Rachelle

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426 — Patrick Ness

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job. — Theresa May

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence. — Eckhart Tolle