Nancy Willard Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.
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God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
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My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
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Live in your roots, not in your branches.
