Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
Damien Rice
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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I don't do negative things.
Rajeev Shukla
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
Irvin D. Yalom
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The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
David J. C. MacKay
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
Wess Stafford
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I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
Daniel Silva
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I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.
Lorde
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
Walter Dean Myers
