Nancy Farmer Quotes
Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.
Quotes to Explore
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.
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I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.
