Walter Dean Myers Quotes
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.Walter Dean Myers
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
Oprah Winfrey -
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Frances O'Grady -
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
Zachary Knighton
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
Sacha Guitry -
We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
Manuel Moroun -
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
Kara Swisher -
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Sam Levenson -
In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
Jack Lemmon -
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis
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I enjoy my life.
Marat Safin -
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert -
My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
Paige VanZant -
There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
S. E. Hinton
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I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.
Clive Owen -
If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.
Charles L. Evans -
But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?
Laini Taylor -
My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.
Carla Gugino -
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Leland Stanford -
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
Walter Dean Myers