Cornelia Funke Quotes
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Remember, the body does gradually renew itself constantly. Do not look upon the conditions which have existed as not being to be eradicated from the system. Hold to that KNOWLEDGE- and don't think of it as just therapy-that the body CAN, the body DOES, renew itself!
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I believe that none of us are fully free when others in the human family remain shackled by poverty or disease or oppression.
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Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.
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Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
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I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.
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Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
