Pamela Druckerman Quotes
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
Quotes to Explore
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Since becoming a pop star, I've experimented a lot more. I've gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it's really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it's a summer's day, wear some bright colours.
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First Lady Michelle Obama - I admire her confidence, integrity, intelligence, compassion, and her overall vibe - she is such an inspiration.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
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He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
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I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.
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When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
