Walter Dean Myers Quotes
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
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It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
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A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.
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An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
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Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
