Beverly Cleary Quotes
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.Beverly Cleary
Quotes to Explore
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
Victoria Wood -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
Eddie Redmayne -
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
Calvin Johnson -
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
Walter Dean Myers
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
Zhang Zhidong -
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
Larry Wilcox -
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
R. Lee Ermey -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker -
Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
Dana Perino -
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza -
I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
Tatum O'Neal -
There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
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Anyway, what does mad mean exactly?" Rami added quickly "Aren't we all a little mad? Don't we have to be somehat mad just to go on living, to go on hoping?
Tabitha Suzuma -
Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.
Art Alexakis -
One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.
M. Carey Thomas -
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
Ken Burns -
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
Beverly Cleary