Celeste Ng Quotes
If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
Quotes to Explore
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.
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I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.
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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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Shopping for groceries for most people is like a chore. It's like doing the laundry or taking out the garbage. And we strive to make shopping engaging, fun and interactive.
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There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
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If you told people you were moving to Ohio, they wouldn't congratulate you. They'd say "OH WHY would you move there?" as if that was something that happened to you and you had to deal with.
