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Cornelia Funke Quotes

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: german
Birth: December 10, 1958

Topics

Son Daughter Almost Ben Anna

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

Eating Warm Better Living Way Big

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Limits Dangerous Know Living Thing

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

Problems Diet Solution Healthy Most

I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

Shooter Jennings

Past People Said Apologize Things

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

Music Opportunity Singing Devil Rock

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Book Thought Conquer Doing Nothing

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Antonio Tabucchi

Job Perfection Doubt Cast Writers

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

Birds Fly Flight Show Function Fact

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.

Work Truth Children Want Way Never

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

Good Balance People Chance Hurt You

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

Retirement Quit My Own Sour Own Get

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Good Words Push Questions Wrong Own

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