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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Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.
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Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess intellect (people) and they have the power of affecting their welfare and their food and they flee from pain and death.
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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.
