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John Green Quotes

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1977

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You Bad Living Review Used Terrible

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

John W. Gardner

Education School Buildings Goal Will

When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high.

Time People Wave Employees You Flag

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Truth Language Want Speaks

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Equality Me Deep Gender Long Go

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Feel Because English Like I Feel

After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.

Guitar Back Feeding Playing Mic

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Moment Tree Me Over Up Saw

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

Identity Me Worry Need Theft Wants

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

Douglas Coupland

Myself People Fashion Think Elegance

My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.

Light Experience Animal Cold You

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Loved Teach Used Teaching Grade

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

Brian Tyree Henry

Love I Am People Think Surprise Off

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