Patricia Polacco Quotes
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.
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I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
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Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.