Walter Dean Myers Quotes
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.