Cecelia Ahern Quotes

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• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Ability
  • Defense

• Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• Sometimes it’s the little, insignificant stuff that can tear you down. I try not to read gossip as a rule, but the other day a website ran an article with a picture of me wearing sweatpants on the way to the gym. The writer asked, 'Why does this petite beauty insist upon dressing like a massive man?' *pause* Because I like to be comfortable.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Gym

• I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Brain
  • Philosophy
  • Racks

• Republicans can't run their normal playbook on me that they try to run on Democratic candidates. They can't say I flip-flop because I don't. They can't say I'm weak on defense because I'm not. They can't say I'm weak on values because I'm not. They can't say I'm a big taxer and a big spender.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Values
  • Democratic
  • Republicans

• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Star

• the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • God
  • Father
  • Writer

• We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Violence
  • Facts
  • Resistance

• Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

  

  Neal Cassady
  • Thinking
  • Lacerated

• He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Win
  • Racism
  • Kentucky

• Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.

  

  Russell Meriwether Hughes
  • Dance
  • Emotional

• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Issues
  • Decide
  • Trifles

• Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

  

  R. M. Williams
  • School
  • Education
  • Leave

• The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Change
  • Create
  • Girls

• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

  

  George Eliot
  • Souls
  • Echoes

• White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Empty words almost echo within themselves

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Empty
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