Celia Imrie (Celia Diana Savile Imrie) Quotes
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…
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The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
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Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
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To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
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I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.
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I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.
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I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.
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Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
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Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
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Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
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Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
