Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

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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.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • You
  • Sexy
  • Head

• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Law
  • Party
  • German

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Kid

• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• 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.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Way
  • Democracy
  • Carry

• 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.'

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• 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.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• 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.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • School
  • High
  • House

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• 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.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Time
  • Home
  • Needs

• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Economy
  • More
  • Economists

• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Integrity

• If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Business
  • Job
  • Easy

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Important
  • Role
  • Directors

• Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
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