Daniel Pinkwater Quotes
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
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In Europe, we have three tools when it comes to fair competition. One is antitrust, one is merger control, and the third is state aid control. And the third you don't have in the States.
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I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
