Adora Svitak Quotes

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Adora Svitak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 15, 1997

Topics

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We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Joan Cusack

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I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.

Robert J. Bentley

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With my business, the way you make big money is you find a great management team and a good concept, and you stick to it, and you add to it over time. In philanthropy, there was more this idea that once an idea was formulated, you moved along.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Shimon Peres

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There is no substitute - none - for American power.

Michael T. Flynn

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I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

Luke James

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If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.

Judy Biggert

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My mother was actually born in Toledo and raised in Detroit.

Dianne Reeves

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I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.

Derek Jacobi

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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Claes Oldenburg

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