Celeste Ng Quotes
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.
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I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
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I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
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I felt really good, really relaxed. I made an effort to clear my mind.
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They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
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It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
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When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
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We'll grow old waiting.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
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What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
