Jean Craighead George Quotes
There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.
Quotes to Explore
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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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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.
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I see people doing things in their Blackberrys, and I need paper. Lines. Alphabets. I need to see it. It's so elementary, man.
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
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There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.
