Pamela Druckerman Quotes
We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
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She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.
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My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
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Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn't have to go to the range. I don't think I will ever to go 'the range' again! I've done enough of that.
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We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true.
