Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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People have to evolve.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
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Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.
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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
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Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.
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When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.
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People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.
