Angie Thomas Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
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Health reform should be open and transparent.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Art is activism.
