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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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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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'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
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I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
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For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
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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.
