Ransom Riggs Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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My singing style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
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Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.
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Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
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Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.
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What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over - for I hate cruelty and intolerance.
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It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.
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I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
