Lois Lowry Quotes
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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Love is more than one thing.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
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Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
