Ben Dolnick Quotes
People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I find the business world hard.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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You were born as the one you are.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear.
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People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'
