Dave Pelzer Quotes
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
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Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
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To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
