E. L. Konigsburg Quotes
I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
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I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'
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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
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I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
