Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

Joan Jett

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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

John F. Kerry

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The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.

Jeff Duncan

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From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were.

Steve Ells

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I always wanted to be a dentist! I thought I was going to be fixing teeth and making beautiful smiles.

Tori Bowie

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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Robert Frost

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Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

Tom Colicchio

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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.

Jay Parini

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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Joseph Conrad

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I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Jonathan Brown

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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman

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