Jack Prelutsky Quotes

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Jack Prelutsky

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• Children
• Fun
• Career
• Myself
• Poetry
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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

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• You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
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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.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
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• I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Balance
  • Green
  • Eat

• 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wish

• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Moment

• I have to trust what I do and then do it.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Trust
  • Then

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
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• I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
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• He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
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• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Play

• All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
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  • Grace

• Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and over in the background from the time I wake until the time I finally, blessedly, fall asleep.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Fall

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Protect
  • Bombs
  • Terrorists

• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Fun