Adam Gidwitz Quotes
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.
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For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
