Rick Riordan Quotes

It's hard enough to be a middle-school kid, because you're dealing with so many facets of your identity - you're changing socially, you're changing physically, you're changing emotionally, everything is in flux, and to put race on top of that as well and have to figure out your racial identity is extremely hard.

Rick Riordan

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IdentityEnoughYouRaceTopKid

When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.

Joan Didion

MotherChildYellowSomeoneYearGo

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

John Doolittle

FreedomDemocracyWorldAmerica

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

Meg White

GoodUsCoverMojo

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeMotherSkyWorldYouBecome

I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.

John McEnroe

ChangeVoteGoingObama

I'm really into lip cream. I have this one by Hourglass: it's an oil with this gold-tip applicator, and it's schmancy-schmancy. When you get to the point that your lips are cracking, the price is worth it.

Anna Kendrick

LipsWorthYouPriceOilWorth It

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Matt LeBlanc

I AmSocietyFindPlaceEarthWhich

I'm totally unpredictable and never do anything consistently.

Michael Cristofer

NeverUnpredictableAnythingTotally

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Steve Carell

FunnyMyselfHumorThinkRoomFail

Part of the reason I am so evangelical in our campaigning work is that I had an unshakeable faith in Labour values, but we needed a machine worthy of the message. I grew up with a peerless Conservative machine, with vastly superior resources.

Douglas Alexander

WorkFaithI AmValuesConservative

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

Woody Harrelson

LovePeopleTheatreEnglandParks

But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.

Perry Como

TodayI AmFeelGenuineAffection

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