Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
Irvin Mayfield
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
Malala Yousafzai
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
Hannah Arendt
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
Ednita Nazario
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
Olivia Wilde
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
Felicity Jones
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
Ingmar Bergman
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
Dan Levitan
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Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch
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I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
Pablo Casals
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Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!
Louise Rennison
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Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.
Barry W. Lynn
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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
William Butler Yeats
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I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
Jacqueline Woodson