Dr. Seuss Quotes
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
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I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
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Another day goes byStill the children cryPut a little love in your heart.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.
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Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Some would call this “volcanic rage”—a mind state that murderers need to enter in order to commit the crime—although they are well aware of what’s going on around them. Another
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When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.
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I am not a consecutive writer.
