Monica Ali Quotes
The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
Quotes to Explore
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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We need to find ways to communicate with each other.
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Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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We need to develop people rather than process them.
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One thing I'm most passionate about is that I'm geared up and ready for another cycle of touring, to go out in the world and be whoever I need to be for someone.
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.
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Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like everyone else - don't be afraid of us - we are all the same!
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The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.
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As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
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After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.
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One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
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The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
