Cornelia Funke Quotes
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.
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So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
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I told the kids not to get up or down on their performances. It's indoor. We just have to keep believing in ourselves and each other and good things will come.
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I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
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Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
