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.
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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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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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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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We need to develop people rather than process them.
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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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Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
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If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
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How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
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I put a lot of weight in what I do, and you and I can talk to each other in a certain way because that's how people interact, but I don't really know how to talk to the entire world.
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I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.
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Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.
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I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' fan. I love 'American Idol,' and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: 'Forensic Files,' 'Dr. G. Medical Examiner,' 'The First 48.'
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I was a handful growing up.
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One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.
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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.
