P. L. Travers Quotes
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
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A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.
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I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
