Celeste Ng Quotes
You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
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The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
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He didn’t know who she was, but she was too crazy to be holding anything in a test tube.
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
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You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
