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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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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There was a time in our very recent history when it was “interesting” to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized.
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And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.
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I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
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I just want people to know me.
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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.
