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Quotes
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Authors
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Clarence Nash
"Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German."
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Clarence Nash
#Chinese Quotes
#Language Quotes
#Portuguese Quotes
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“As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.”
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“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”
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“The guys that make game winners are the guys that are not afraid to miss them.”
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“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.”
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“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
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“There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.”
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“Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.”
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“Love For All; Hatred for None”