Katherine Paterson Quotes
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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Brad Pitt's role in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' - I want to do that so bad! That's one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.
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I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
