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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Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
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'Who wants to fish, if you're halfway civilised? Dangling some dead meat in front of some poor brainless thing and then pulling him up by a hook in the roof of his mouth? Cruellest thing people do is fish.'
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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One of things I write about a lot is the role of women. An older friend of mine said that she feels like there's always a tension between wanting to be free and wanting to be cherished. I think that's one of the things that my whole book speaks to, wanting to break out of the confines of the roles that are prescribed for women and yet at the same time, not wanting to be totally free. You want to have intimate relationships. It's that bursting out of confinement.
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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.
