Jack Gantos Quotes
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
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Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
