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

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• 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

• I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Good
  • Parents

• 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

• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Great
  • Important
  • New York

• If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Working
  • Now
  • Gone

• It's really empowering to have curly hair.

  

  Cam
  • Hair
  • Empowering
  • Curly

• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • High
  • Friendship

• Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Mind

• Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Ocean

• There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Fun
  • Kind

• University is great, but it wasn't right for me.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Great

• But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Information
  • Data

• 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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