Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'
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Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time-but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.
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The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
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I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.
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To the patient, any operation is momentous.
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I like the fact that Tess Holliday is comfortable in her own skin and loves herself. I think that's a hugely positive message that women of all sizes really need to adopt.
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The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
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I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.
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I accept the verdict of the people.
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Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.
