Kenneth Oppel Quotes
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.Kenneth Oppel
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood -
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Naval Ravikant -
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage -
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier -
If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose -
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
D. H. Lawrence -
I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
Pat Buchanan -
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
Yuri Milner
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen -
Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
T. J. Perkins -
Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
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I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.
F. W. de Klerk -
Who are you without your girls? I truly believe that. Who are you without the people who help you make sense of the misogyny, the racism, the economic struggle, all of it? You need those people saying you're a good mom, a great writer. You're a great dresser. You cook well. Whatever the beauty is that you need to hear.
Jacqueline Woodson -
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
Jake Tapper -
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley -
The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.
Kenneth Oppel