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.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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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.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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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.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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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.
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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.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
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People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.
