Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
Dana Perino
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
Usain Bolt
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
Pat Buchanan
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There's more to life than football, right?
Fabrice Muamba
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Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
Barack Obama
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
Walter Benjamin
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
Ambrose Bierce
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Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!
Andrew Carnegie
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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
Colum McCann
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
Mark Goddard
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The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
James Earl Jones
