Sharon Creech Quotes
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
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Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
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We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
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I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.
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When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
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I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
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I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.
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Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.
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You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
