Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
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To the world,You may be just another girl.But to me,Baby, you are the world.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.
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I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
