Walter Dean Myers Quotes

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

Walter Dean Myers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014

Topics

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Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Joe Dempsie

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I used to be weak - as did all British fighters - with wrestling, because we don't have high school wrestling or college wrestling here.

Michael Bisping

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If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Trevor Noah

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Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way. You can see why performers get very self-absorbed.

Rita Moreno

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I train heavy and hard every workout. That's the only way I knew. I know it was the key to my success.

Ronnie Coleman

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Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

Jonathan Raymond

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I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

DeRay Mckesson

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Rock formations and their layers of texture and color have been a strong inspiration, as well as the landscapes of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada and the Rainbow Mountains in China.

Chloe Gosselin

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I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Coolio

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I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.

Ariel Sharon

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Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

Antony Gormley

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Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.

Annalee Newitz

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