Adam Gidwitz Quotes
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I've had a great run and have been blessed not only with a great career, but also, thanks to all of you nice people buying video games, t-shirts, action figures, collected editions - and watching all those movies and TV shows - my royalty income allows me financial security for life.
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Home is where you can be yourself.
