Emika Chen Quotes & Sayings

I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. — Matt Bomer

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?' — Naya Rivera

The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict. — Michael Tellinger

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love. — Eknath Easwaran

Leadership is character in action. — James Hunter

Distance is a great promoter of admiration — Denis Diderot

Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation. — Vincent De Paul

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism. — Bobby Knight