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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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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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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Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
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The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.
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News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn’t interfere with the flamethrower. “No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.
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We got lucky, it's as simple as that. You win some, you lose some. I've seen that shot by Smith go in many, many times, and we got lucky because we made an error in coverage.
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The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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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.
