Pamela Druckerman Quotes

When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.

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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
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• I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Know
  • Internet

• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Space
  • Attitude
  • Vanity

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• 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.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
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• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
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• When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Football
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • Life

• I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Long
  • She
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• Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Risk
  • Credit
  • Investment

• Silence is refreshment for the soul.

  

  Wynonna Judd
  • Soul
  • Silence

• When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Kids