Daniel Pinkwater Quotes
Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
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I hope they were glad I was back and I hope that I did give them some type of confidence. It's important for my confidence for me to feel wanted and be able to go out there and make something happen.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.
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I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
