Loung Ung Quotes

#1. Why are they doing this, Pa?" Kim asks. "Because they are destroyers of things.

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#2. Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

William Holden

#3. Living life to the fullest involves living it with your family.

Loung Ung

#4. That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

Jim Norton

#5. Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

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#6. Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.

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#7. I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

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#8. I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

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#9. As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I've had the chance to do something that's worth me being alive ... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.

Loung Ung

#10. a good recipe in the hands of a bad chef is still distasteful! A good chef must have a discriminating palate, and a good band director must have a discerning ear

Mary Ellen Cavitt

#11. My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

Anthony Bourdain

#12. The first victims are always the children.

Loung Ung

#13. You don't start communities, he said. Communities already exist. They're already doing what they want to do. The question you should ask is how you can help them do that better.

Jeff Jarvis

#14. So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

Cay S. Horstmann

#15. And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

Dave Matthews

#16. We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

Mark Hyman

#17. In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

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#18. In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you would not survive.

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#19. But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

Patrick Ness

#20. The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

#21. When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love
(April 2012, O Magazine)

Anne Lamott

#22. The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

Craig Venter

#23. From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

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