Patrick Ness Quotes
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.
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Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
