Anthony Doerr Quotes

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Anthony Doerr

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• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
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  • Country

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Play
  • Theatre

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • World
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• There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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  • Good
  • Mind

• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Look
  • Ghost

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
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  • Never
  • Just

• I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Game
  • Always

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
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  • Children
  • Home

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
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  • Father

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
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  • Help
  • Energy

• I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

  

  Sam Altman
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  • Know

• As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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  • True
  • Down

• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Irish

• Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Country
  • Water
  • Ocean

• I'm scared to be political. You get too powerful, and more people try to take you out.

  

  Meek Mill
  • People
  • Political
  • Powerful

• There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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  • School

• An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth-a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth
  • Law

• You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

  

  Anthony Doerr
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