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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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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But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
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Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
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The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much money,' I say, 'I absolutely agree with you. But I still hope we do it.'
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We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
