Jeff Kinney Quotes
If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
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If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
