Cornelia Funke Quotes
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In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.
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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
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I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
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There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
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In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.
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Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.
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I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
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I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.
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We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
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There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.
