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Karen DeCrow Quotes

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

Karen DeCrow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1937 - June 6, 2014

Topics

Great Opinion Free Library America

Put me up against Sarah Silverman and I could take her.

Joan Rivers

Me Up Take Her Against Could

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

John C. Reilly

Movies Lord Rings Big Big Fan Fan

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.

Sterling K. Brown

Day Job Go First Next Years

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

Tom Clancy

Me Start Think Thought Someone Down

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

History Think Rise Sometimes Human

During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.

Monica Potter

Together School I Am Relax Fruit

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Jay Samit

Me Angel Entrepreneur Nothing More

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

Donald Hall

Time Theatre Bad First Time First

Anything to do with the land, I love.

Chris LeDoux

Love Land Anything I Love

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

Christina Perri

Love Yourself Love Yourself Someone

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

Cindy Crawford

Beautiful Time Me Face Weekend Look

In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.

Anthony Doerr

Friend Power Cool Cold Warm Sheep