Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
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Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
