Cecelia Ahern Quotes
What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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I will run against anybody.
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The media is controlled.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
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Television is taking over the Internet.
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I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
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In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.
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I was lucky to have amazing mentors like Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.
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My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
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If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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If you really screw up, send roses.
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What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
