Astrid Lindgren Quotes
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.
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The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.
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His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.