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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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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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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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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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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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
