Rebecca Stead Quotes
If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
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The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.
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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
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I didn't study; I live.
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Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.
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If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.
