John Green Quotes
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
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All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
