Arnold Lobel Quotes
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
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In our travels, we have come across many equations - math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.
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His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: 'Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'
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Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
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There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)
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The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!
