Cecelia Ahern Quotes

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Cecelia Ahern

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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Other
  • Polite

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • People
  • Myself
  • Kitchen

• Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • May
  • Relationship

• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Love
  • May

• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • People
  • Trust
  • Tragedy

• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evolution

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • She
  • Business

• People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • May
  • Hurt

• Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Hand

• People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It's like freedom of speech - they can't tell you not to do it. When no one will put you on at a club or venue, you can go to the street, just start singing, and get a lot of good feedback from people as they walk by. I got really good at lip reading and seeing if a song is working. It was a good way to start.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Trying
  • Inspiration

• The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fear

• Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

  

  Mary Cheney
  • Life

• A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • People
  • Candy

• Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Health
  • Quality

• The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Feelings