Patrick Ness Quotes
So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
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Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.
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If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.
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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.
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So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
