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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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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Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.
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If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
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I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
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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.
