Patrick Ness Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs -
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
Cam Newton -
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian Mckellen -
I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
Naval Ravikant -
There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
Kate Micucci -
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
Sam Neill
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
Karin Slaughter -
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
Barry McCaffrey -
My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
Zach LaVine -
For the first time I'm free to be myself.
Ed Balls -
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
Patrick deWitt -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
Pat Metheny -
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
Daniel Alarcon -
The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
Paolo Gentiloni
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
Hans Kung -
This is a day and age when the perimeter players are scoring more than the interior players.
Phil Jackson -
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.
Diana Ross -
I can't just say everything that I feel because, at the end of the day, I am a product.
Jeffree Star -
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Patrick Ness