Jeff Kinney Quotes

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst kids so that they could get a ribbon, and I'd show up with my friend who was also a terrible swimmer, and we would be amazed that the best kids hadn't bothered to show up. I didn't get it until after college.

Jeff Kinney

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1971

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I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

Joe Mantello

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Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem

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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

John Keegan

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Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

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And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

Marvin Olasky

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I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Michel Houellebecq

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I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

Julia Roberts

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You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.

Lisa Randall

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'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

Josie Bissett

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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Jason Aldean

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I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

Janice Dickinson

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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Jon Bon Jovi

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