Celeste Ng Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.
