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If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking.… — Zig Ziglar
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves. — Nikita Khrushchev
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern
I also eat fruit instead of drinking juices. That's something I've read up on. I think that if you drink a lot of fruit juice… — Kris Humphries
When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity. — Adrian Rogers
Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused… — Sarah Kay
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. — Greg Ginn
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I… — Davy Jones
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. — Harold Brodkey
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin,… — Steven Saylor
If you want to know a country, read its writers. — Aminatta Forna
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. — James Gould Cozzens
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are… — Walter Murch
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America. — Morgan Spurlock
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
I read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better. — Scott Snyder
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses… — Henry Jenkins
If you invest the short time it takes to read, understand and apply the basic principles in this book, there is little doubt you will… — Unknown Author
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in… — Gordon Getty
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of… — Gordon Getty
Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look… — Padmasree Warrior

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