Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

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• I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

  

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• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

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• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

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• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

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• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

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• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  

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• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

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• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

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• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

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• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

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• I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

  

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• I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

  

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• "The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

  

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• Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

  

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• Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
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