Christy Romano Quotes
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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I can scare myself like a pro.
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ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.
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One thing that makes me optimistic is other media from the digital world coming at radio. MTV tried to kill the radio star back in the '80s. And with all the digital services coming at us, people say it's a thing of the past - it's not.
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Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
