Jason Reynolds Quotes

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'

Jason Reynolds

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1983

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I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'

Jim Lee

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs

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Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Robert Kiyosaki

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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Steven Sinofsky

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A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

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What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn't actually mean there's any virtue to doing it that way at all.

Jonathan Ive

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Women should do kitchen work and take care of babies.

Bobby Riggs

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People say to me, 'Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange.'

Prince Andrew

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Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Thomas McGuane

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But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

Toby Jones

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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

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As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we're not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?

Tim Kaine

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