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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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
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It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.
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Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.
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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.
