Ransom Riggs Quotes
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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Just like the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons, an extensive war in space would make space useless, and the decisions taken today will influence the use of space for many generations to come.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
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To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.
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I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
