"I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!"

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Source : "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

Natalie Merchant

#Girl Quotes #Crush Quotes #Years Quotes

“Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.”
“My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.”
“You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.”
“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”
“I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.”

Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
“Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.”

Source : Roger C. Schank (1991). “The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind: How We Think, How We Learn, and What It Means to Be Intelligent”, Pocket Books
“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.”
“The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”

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