Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
Ban Ki-moon
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
Adam Grant
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So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,- The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
John Gay
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.
Andrew Solomon
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I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it's about keeping the caller on. It's about leading with your personality and making sure that they're still listening to you and that they're still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
B. B. King
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It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson
