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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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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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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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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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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I want things to change in The Nameless City. I want the people in the city to finally have some influence over its future. We've never had that before. If there's something I can do to make this council of nations happen, I want to know about it. Don't tell me not to be worried. Tell me how to help.
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"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
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We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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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.
