Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?
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Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.
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My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
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And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
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Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.
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Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
