Lydia M. Child Quotes
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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Money talks — but credit has an echo.
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Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
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I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.
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The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
