Library Quotes - Page 28

• I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

  Helen McCrory

  Book, Awards, Office

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• Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

  Nathan Fillion

  Children, Growing Up, Reading

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• I think it’s really important, and it’s a lesson I didn’t learn until my late teens: Whatever bands that you love, go find out what bands they love, and what bands turned them on, and then you really start getting into the human aspect of it because the further back you go in time the less technology you had, and consequently the better records you had. There’s this incredible library of music thank god.

  Brad Wilk

  Technology, Thinking, Important

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• When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

  Eric Ripert

  Dream, Book, Twelve

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• Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Men, Museums

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• I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

  Dougray Scott

  Horse, Military, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty and love for her family are truly inspirational for young and old alike.

  Nien Cheng

  Loyalty, Moving, Adversity

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• There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

  Gary Rydstrom

  Block, Real, Interesting

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• The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

  Nikky Finney

  Space, Sacred, Planets

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• I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

  Luanne Rice

  Fiction, Born

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• To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.

  Dominique Venner

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "The Rebel: An Interview with Dominique Venner". www.counter-currents.com. June 29, 2010.

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Auctions

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the first bird you see…you are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile, and a library of knowledge built on experience…what you are witnessing is not just biology, but a biography.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Emotional, Animal, Unique

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• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  Kate Capshaw

  People, Preparation, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

  Bill Russell

  Oakland, Cards, Prized Possessions

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Safe Return

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1601, Library of America

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• In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Law, Essentials

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• Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

  Walt Whitman

  Doors, Leaves Of Grass, Proud

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.456, NYU Press

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• And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Book, Addict

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• School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  School, Luxury, Foundation

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• It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Girl, Ambition, Boys

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.30, 谷月社

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• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

  Edward Bellamy

  Book, People, Liberty

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books

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• All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

  Studs Terkel

  Needs, Life Is, Truth And Beauty

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• I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

  David Horowitz

  Careers, Keys, Use

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• I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

  John Cage

  Running, Book, Reading

  John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

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