Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

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• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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• Time is long but life is short.

  

  Stevie Wonder
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  • Time
  • Long

• You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

  

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• I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.

  

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• I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

  

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• As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

  

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• That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Respect
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• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ideas
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• There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Compulsion
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• If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
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• There's a ton of nerves for every fight I've been in; it doesn't matter if it was my debut.

  

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• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  

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• I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

  

  Celine Dion
  • People
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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  

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• We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

  

  Aristotle
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• Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

  

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• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

  

  Huston Smith
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  • Rules
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• Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Devices
  • Plot
  • Blair