Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.
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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
