Margaret Haddix Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
Lake Bell -
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern -
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Gary Wolf -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Landon Donovan -
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Orson Welles -
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Ilan Stavans -
Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
Barry Ritholtz
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White -
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. Howe
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I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
Mark Zuckerberg -
I'm a big video game fan.
Kyrie Irving -
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm going to name my daughter Emily.
Lucy Dacus -
With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.
John Tillotson -
I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.
Margaret Haddix