Lauren Tarshis Quotes
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
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In quiet moments, I love to read.
