Jane Yolen Quotes
My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.Jane Yolen
Quotes to Explore
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
Salman Rushdie -
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
Idris Elba -
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo -
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
Carl Lewis
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen -
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.
Naeem Khan -
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia -
I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
Irvine Welsh -
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
Ziggy Marley -
When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
Yolanda Adams
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It is my passion to direct movies.
Maiwenn -
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
Edith Stein -
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
Oscar Nunez -
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie
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I find that I'm fighting to keep my energy and my passion centered on the work and not on "Will this get me an Oscar?" - which is the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in the way people are starting to talk to me. I'm not interested in looking at a role that way. That's not what I ever did, and it's not how I can continue to do my work.
Kathy Bates -
I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.
John C. Calhoun -
I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
Oprah Winfrey -
You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.
Elaine S. Dalton -
Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
Lobsang Tenzin -
My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
Jane Yolen