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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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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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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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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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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Young people want you to be real with them.
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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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I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.
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I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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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.
