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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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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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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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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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.
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Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
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Meeting Perry Farrel was kind of cool. He's such an icon, and I was such a fan of Jane's Addiction.
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Lord Asriel is just a man, with human power, no more than that. But his ambition is limitless. He dares to do what men and women don't even dare to think.
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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.
