Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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I'm a dork!
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
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I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.
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Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.
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The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.
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A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
