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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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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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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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
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And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the minimum wage to go up.
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The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.
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Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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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!
