Maryanne Wolf Quotes

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

Maryanne Wolf

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Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Andre Gide

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Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

Angus Deaton

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We will support anything to stabilize the oil demand and supply.

Mohammad bin Salman

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Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Chris Jordan

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After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Annie Besant

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'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

Susanna Moore

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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.

Mark Kurlansky

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President Obama has greatly contributed to Israel's security.

Moshe Kahlon

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I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

Lenny Kravitz

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There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

Ken Howard

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I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

Justin Peck

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