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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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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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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The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
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I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.
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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.
