Cynthia Voigt Quotes

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • God
  • Fear

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • End
  • Goals

• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Finance

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
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• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
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• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Fun

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

  

  Joe Theismann
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  • Mom

• When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Power
  • Hurt

• Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

  

  Joe Biden
  • World
  • American
  • Free

• I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
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