Pamela Druckerman Quotes
When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.

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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.
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...if the music stops and there's only the sound of the rainAll the hope and glory - All the sacrifice in vain(And) If love remains, though everything is lostWe will pay the price, but we will not count the cost - Bravado (1991)
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I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.
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As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
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It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.