Rick Riordan Quotes
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as much as possible. Real life is happening all around you; you're better off just being a part of it.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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There was just something about me she did not like.
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People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
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I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
