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.
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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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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
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We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
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Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
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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.
