Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?
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There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
