Lois Lowry Quotes
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.Lois Lowry
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr. -
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
Dana Carvey -
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine -
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
Paloma Faith -
My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs -
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
Pat Metheny
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
Gabrielle Roy -
I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
Gary Sherman -
You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
O. Winston Link -
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
Adam Lambert -
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
Vince Vaughn -
I want the audience to walk out of the theater feeling they got their money's worth. Every movie that I enjoy, I leave the theater with something to take with me.
Kelly Asbury
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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Thich Nhat Hanh -
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Saint Augustine -
People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
Lamar Odom -
'An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.'
Keith Olbermann -
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.
Lois Lowry