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 could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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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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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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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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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
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'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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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.
