Ciara (Ciara Princess Harris) Quotes
Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?
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I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
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There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
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I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.
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Being a mom to my son has taken precedence over everything in my life, and I think that's the order it should be... It's a great challenge that I don't think's ever gonna stop.
