Chris Raschka Quotes
Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
