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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
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A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.
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I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
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If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because it has to be the public that makes the conclusions and who, possibly, resolves the situation.
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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.
