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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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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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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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
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I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.
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Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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In Malta, it's so hot, you wouldn't believe.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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'Come on, then, Giac,' said Suzy. 'Last one to the top is a rotten sorceror.' She started off at a run, but paused after a few steps when Giac didn't immediately follow. He was looking puzzled. 'Come on!' 'But I already am a rotten sorceror,' he said.
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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.
