Elizabeth George Speare Quotes
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
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The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.
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... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
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You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
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I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.
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People will know you’re serious when you produce.
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There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.
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The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.
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The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.
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Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.
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I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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There was something irresistible about popcorn.
