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.
Harriet Tubman -
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
Hamza Yusuf -
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.
Majora Carter -
Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
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.
Jack Kingston
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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.
Saint Basil -
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
Carlene Carter -
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.
Tate Donovan -
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Samantha Bond -
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
Tammy Bruce
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
Natalie Portman -
There's no one who has been living for centuries.
Malala Yousafzai -
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel -
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry -
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
Rachel Cusk -
I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
Jackie Earle Haley
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He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who proceeds without principle, as chance, timidity, or self-preservation directs, will not perhaps fare better; but he will be less blamed.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur -
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland -
I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
Petula Clark -
The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.
Alber Elbaz -
If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
Michael Morpurgo