Jean Craighead George Quotes
There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I don't do meetings.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.
