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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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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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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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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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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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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I sometimes feel that I'd like to talk about it. Then I find it's better if I don't.
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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.
