Charlie Pierce Quotes
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.
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If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
