Sharon Creech Quotes
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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“Behold,” Isobel said, “a single-stage Earth-to-orbit rocket. I drove all the way from Virginia just to help with this. My boyfriend is crazy jealous.
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The wise speak only of what they know.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
