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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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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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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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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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So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
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I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.
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In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.
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I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.
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I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
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The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!
