Dave Pelzer Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.
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Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.
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ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters' deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving...
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
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The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.
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Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
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Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.
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I had an attachment disorder.
