Cecelia Ahern Quotes
...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
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Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
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I'm never home. I miss birthdays. I miss holidays. I miss anniversaries. I miss special moments. I'm not always there for important times, because I'm out on the road trying to make people laugh. I give up my privacy. I give up the ability to walk somewhere and relax.
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But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.
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...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
