But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing … - Walter Dean Myers

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"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Walter Dean Myers

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

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Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Book, Kids, See, Smart, Think

When I began to read, I began to exist

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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

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I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

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Allen Toussaint

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

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Aaron Karo

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Cormac McCarthy

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

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Scott Speedman

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

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