Cecelia Ahern Quotes
More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Affluence means influence.
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I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
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The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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The Bay Area is probably better prepared than most urban areas for a natural disaster. But it's not prepared enough.
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The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.
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More often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
