Hugh Lofting Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.
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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
