Jeff Kinney Quotes
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.Jeff Kinney
Quotes to Explore
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
Carl Safina -
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson -
Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
Carl Hagelin -
I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
Kat Dennings -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss -
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A. -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith -
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln -
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
Venus Williams
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
Rachel Nichols -
I think the future takes care of itself.
Pam Bondi -
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Patrick Dempsey -
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie -
We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
Becky Lynch -
I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
Hannah Ware
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If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
Van Jones -
In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.
Gary Hustwit -
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Jeff Kinney