Esme Raji Codell Quotes
The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.
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I love producing, I love bringing things together.
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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
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The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
