Lois Lowry Quotes
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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I think abortion is murder.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
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As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
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People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married... with Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?
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We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.
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You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.
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I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
