Celia Green Quotes
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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A good leader must be fair.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
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You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot -
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Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
