Norton Juster Quotes
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.Norton Juster
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Wallace Stevens -
Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
Gail Simmons -
My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
Zach Anner
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
Odette Annable -
The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
Barbara Windsor -
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
Harmony Korine -
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman -
I think I've been a great citizen.
O. J. Simpson -
In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
Wendy Kopp
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
Udonis Haslem -
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey -
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
Jack Canfield -
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Warwick Davis -
An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
G. Edward Griffin -
It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
Natalie Gulbis
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
Madchen Amick -
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
Aaron Levie -
One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.
Nancy Atherton -
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
Norton Juster