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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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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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 have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
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Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
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I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
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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.
