R. J. Palacio Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
Sammy Cahn -
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
Ted Demme -
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
Sam Palladio -
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
Victor LaValle -
I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
Camila Alves
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. Chidambaram -
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Ed Koch -
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
Zosia Mamet
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
Xavier Becerra -
I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
Sacheen Littlefeather -
I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
Karan Singh Grover -
I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
Yayoi Kusama -
Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Randy Pausch
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader -
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis -
When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.
Maria Sharapova -
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Just follow the day and reach for the sun!
R. J. Palacio