Jerry Spinelli Quotes
I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.
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I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.