Cate Tiernan (Gabrielle Charbonnet) Quotes
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
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In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.
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'Peace' means rules respected by everyone - big or small, rich or poor - means cooperation. It means respect for human rights and dignity.
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Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.
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In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?