J. Horace McFarland Quotes
The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.
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We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults.
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The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.
