Cecelia Ahern Quotes
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
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Critical evaluation was transformed into understanding, and criticism became not an act of judgment but of comprehension.
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Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
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It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
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On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.
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sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.
