Jon Scieszka Quotes

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1954

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I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

Jimmy Page

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You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

Jerry Kleczka

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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

Andrew Bird

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Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

Mauro Icardi

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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

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I'm a good storyteller.

Sophie Marceau

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Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.

Tom Heinsohn

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I know my beliefs. I know where I stand on issues and concerns, and I feel that there is the right platform to tackle those concerns. And if you're lucky enough to have a voice on something you have knowledge, then speak your mind, but only really for things for which you have an input.

Rose Leslie

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Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.

Jason T. Smith

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My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.

Dominic Thiem

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Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

Anthony McCarten

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

William Howard Taft

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