Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
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The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.
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I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.
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You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
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The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.
