Celeste Ng Quotes

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

Celeste Ng

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• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
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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.

  

  Gary Hamel
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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.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
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• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
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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.

  

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

  

  Nam June Paik
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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.

  

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

  

  Karl Marx
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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.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• I didn't say that my son died for Israel. I've never said that. I saw somebody wrote that and it wasn't my words. Those aren't even words that I would say.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
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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.

  

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

  

  Fred Wilson
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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.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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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.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.

  

  Marley Dias
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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.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
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• My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.

  

  Analeigh Tipton
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• Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
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• I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

  

  John Cassavetes

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

  

  David Lynch The Platters
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• One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

  

  Thomas Keating
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  • Share

• But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.

  

  William Johnson Cory
  • School
  • Habit
  • Arts

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

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Habit