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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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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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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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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 heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.
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We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.
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(On his Catholic faith): 'Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life.'
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I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
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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.
