Maria Semple Quotes

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

Maria Semple

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I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.

Meg Rosoff

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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

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I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

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Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

Ron Blomberg

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I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.

Russell Wilson

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I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Mary Karr

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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

Jorge Posada

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I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

Debby Ryan

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I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.

Brian Fallon

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Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

Brendan Iribe

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There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

Brett Kavanaugh

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