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Jon Scieszka Quotes

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Funny Dog Time School Me Mom

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

Business Technology Today Progress

Every time I'm on the court, every time a fan cheers for me, I just want to go out and make a play for them to cheer even more.

Time Me Play Go Want More

The blockchain is to money what SMTP is to email. It's an open way to move value around. Every existing player in this space - not just Venmo but also Google and Facebook and others - are all closed; they all want to work just within their own walled garden.

Work Money Value Space Garden Want

It's often hard to just throw money at a problem when you don't really know what the problem is.

Money Problem You Know Hard Just

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Life Happiness Courage Ideas Living

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.

Change Age Time Stone Emotion Human

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

Moving Direction Right Administration

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Think Fantasy More Open Being Just

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.

Family Love Mother Brother End Over

I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian.

Love People Talking Asian British

'Power breaking,' also called Hanmadang - which means something like celebration or festival in Korean - involves breaking large amounts of wood, concrete, granite, and the like with specific hand and foot techniques. Practitioners rely on repeated resistance training and the idea that, over time, the body can adapt to stress.

Power Time Stress Training Body

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

Music Better You Back Choice Kid

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