Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I'm evangelical.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
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Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
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Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.
