Linda Sue Park Quotes
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I try to lead by example.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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When I got back to my cell, I said, 'God, I asked you to set me free, not kill me.' God spoke to me and said, 'Andrew, I have set you free from the inside out, I have given you life!' From that moment on I haven't stopped worshipping Him. I had never sung before, never led worship, until Jesus set me free.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
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My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
