Nancy Farmer Quotes
Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
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My style go with me. It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind.
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I'm pretty mercurial and a very difficult, long-winded decision-maker at the best of times.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.
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Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
