Dave Pelzer Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
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Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
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Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
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I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.
