Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1943

Topics

FunnyLoveChildrenStoryLovedYou

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

Jodie Foster

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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

Joel Salatin

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Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.

John McAfee

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I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.

John John Florence

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We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

Andy Grove

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Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

Steve Kanaly

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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

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For a long time, I resisted seeing 'The Sound of Music,' but when I finally did, I cried.

Michael Learned

MusicTimeLongSeeingLong Time

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

Joseph Rotblat

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The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Jon Evans

HopeGreatHumblePeopleManagement

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

David Tang

ImpossibleThinkWithoutAnything

If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

Christopher Buckley

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