Pamela Druckerman Quotes
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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No man fails who does his best.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
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What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
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What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.
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We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.
