Dr. Seuss Quotes
I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Quotes to Explore
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Set ambitious goals and don't be afraid to declare and aim for them. You need to know where you want to go in order to get there. It is important to have a destination in mind.
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Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.
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I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.
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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
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I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
