"Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't."

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Source : "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Jon Scieszka

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.”
“With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'”
“All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.”
“If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.”

Source : "Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 533". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. December 13, 1869.
“I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.”
“Marriage is not common in Sweden.”
“God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.”
“Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.”

Source : Elizabeth David (1969). “French Country Cooking”

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