Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Reassuring

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Know

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • You

• One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Die

• My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Father
  • Universe
  • Ship

• He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People

• He has no manners—he just has customs.

  

  Addison Mizner

• Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Up
  • Running
  • Sex

• We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

  

  Marta Kristen
  • Good
  • Future

• I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • World
  • Job
  • Experience

• I have over 35 tattoos.

  

  Elle King

• It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • True
  • Fun
  • Horse

• In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

  

  David Ignatius
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• I just don't believe that a woman is naturally closer to her child than a man. Not at all.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Believe

• The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • People
  • Believe
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