Jenny Han Quotes
There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.
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The beautiful faces of the children I’ve met in Rwanda and in other countries are with me every day and fuel my passion to raise awareness of the global hunger issue. That’s why I’m urging everyone to join me and #PassTheRedCup for Yum! Brands’ World Hunger Relief effort. Together we can move millions of children from hunger to hope.
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The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
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There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
