Nancy Farmer Quotes

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Nancy Farmer

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Any show that includes guns or machinery or stuff like that, you need to trust who's around you because blanks are flying.

Jessy Schram

TrustFlyingYouNeedGunsStuff

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MindLimitsWillHumanHuman Mind

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

Jeff Van Gundy

GreatBrandTryingKindImageFeed

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

Michael Haneke

ThinkDoingNewHealthyEveryone

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Stephen Baldwin

TimeBaseballAmericaCountryFirst

If youth knew; if age could.

Sigmund Freud

AgeYouthBrainyKnewCould

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

Shuji Nakamura

HopeLightEnergyHelpWillCost

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

WorkFamilyMusicPassionChildren

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

Miguel Syjuco

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There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

Chuck Grassley

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The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

Ashton Kutcher

DressBeardYouNeedYourSharper

I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

Allan Savory

FuturePeopleMeCareEnoughYou

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