James Patterson Quotes
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
Quotes to Explore
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
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If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.
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Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.
