Mal Peet Quotes

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

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• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Day
  • Two
  • Debate

• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • Police
  • Force
  • Obvious

• Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Nobody

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • World
  • Job
  • Jealous

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Steak
  • Caviar

• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Soon

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Doing

• I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Understand
  • Roots

• I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Perspective
  • Grass
  • Soil

• Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Place

• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Most
  • Loving
  • Daring

• A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • She
  • Humanity

• I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Day

• Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Blood
  • Cry

• Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.

  

  Willow Smith
  • People
  • Giving
  • Shining

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting