Rick Riordan Quotes
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.

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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
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I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
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Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
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The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.
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My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students.