Dave Pelzer Quotes

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
  • May
  • Easy

• There's more to life than physical and material.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • More
  • Material

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Ghosts

• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Day

• All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nature

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Fear
  • Perfection
  • No Fear

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • Country
  • Personal

• Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Guilty

• I always knew I'd be a sailor. In my cradle, playing with my toes, I knew it. What else could there have been? The sailors had made my blood move before I was born, I now believe. As my mother stood one night upon the shit-smelling Bermondsey shore with me in her belly, the sailors had sung out there across the great river, and their siren song had come to the shell-pink enormity that was my listening ear newly formed in the amniotic fluid. Or so I believe.

  

  Carol Birch
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Blood

• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

  

  Dave Pelzer
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Age