Rick Riordan Quotes
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
Quotes to Explore
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?
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Now, we don't get that many specific threats against sporting events, per se. But we know from listening to the chatter how terrorists want to attack iconic events. So whether it's a major Fourth of July celebration or the Super Bowl or the World Series, we assume that that is what they're targeting.
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When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
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I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.
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A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.
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I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
