Jon Scieszka Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Agent Coulson takes the work very seriously. He certainly has some fun with Spider-Man and the others, but he takes each of their tasks, including when they get involved with the drama club, way too seriously. The adventures that they come up with are really exciting.
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My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
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For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
