Jane Yolen Quotes
It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
Jane Yolen
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
Naomi Campbell
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
V. E. Schwab
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
Im Dong-Hyun
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
Camryn Manheim
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
Olivia Newton-John
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
Harold E. Varmus
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
Nadia Comaneci
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Jack Henry Abbott
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom
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I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.
Mary Steenburgen
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When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Gene Kelly
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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
Plato
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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The first thing you always do is seek out the best people that you can find for your organization. If you find the best people, you can basically go anywhere you want to go because they will take you there.
Keith Kellogg
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It is not crazy to want to know the past. It is only crazy to live there, like so many of the aristocracy.
Jane Yolen
