Michael Morpurgo Quotes
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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It appeared as if the whole nation stood up to greet me in Ahmedabad on my taking the 432nd wicket. The country was proud and that made me really happy...This was the first time in my life I realized what it is to be the number 1 in the world. It is a heady feeling almost out of the world.
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When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.
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If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
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Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.