Cecelia Ahern Quotes
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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Affluence means influence.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
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Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.
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You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.
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As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
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Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
