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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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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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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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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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.
