Gary Paulsen Quotes
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
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Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
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A man has to know his limitations.
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You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
