Celeste Ng Quotes

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

Celeste Ng

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• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

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• I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

  

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• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  

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• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

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• The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

  

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• Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

  

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• Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

  

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• Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.

  

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• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.

  

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• Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.

  

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• Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

  

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  

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• Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

  

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• None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

  

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• It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.

  

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• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  

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• I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.

  

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• After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Habit