Dave Pelzer Quotes
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Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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If it's music, I love it.
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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.
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I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
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When you grow up in a violent home, the fights, the screaming, the pain all blur together. To survive, you block as much of it out of your head as you can in the moment. You try to forget it going forward.
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I love seeing a young woman embrace who she is.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.
