Ransom Riggs Quotes
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.
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I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.
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There's some awfully good things done today and some awful terrible things done today,
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.
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In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.
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It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.
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Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
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Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.
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Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
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It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.
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The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.
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People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
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The faster people are recruited to clinical trials and other studies, the sooner we will get the evidence so patients can get the best possible treatment .
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
