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Nancy Willard Quotes

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1936

Topics

Girl Growing Up Loved Growing Way

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'

Value People Society Feel Reward

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Pain America You House White Over

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

Success Opportunity People Me Better

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

Live Today Simple City You Born

Well, one thing for sure, I won't be remembered for 'Free Willy.' Or maybe I will.

Free Will Remembered Well Sure

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

Great Architecture Genius Sketch Way

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

Good Respect Quality People Think

I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.

Music Passion Sports Parents Me Up

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Future People Trees Think Plant You

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

Football College Play Study

What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.

Great Champion You Look Him Against

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Fighting Remember Will Reason Same

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