Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
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Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.
