Suzanne Collins Quotes

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Suzanne Collins

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One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Andrew Young

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I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I love talking with fans.

Stephanie Corneliussen

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I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Tommy Caldwell

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I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.

Robbie Lawler

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I always love going to New York.

Johnny Flynn

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Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Chubby Checker

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My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

Brooklyn Decker

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There's nobody you can call and say, 'So, can you maybe send me your formula for frying Hollandaise?' because to the best of my knowledge, it didn't exist before we did it.

Wylie Dufresne

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That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

Phil Lord

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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

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