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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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.
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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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There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.
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The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
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You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.
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I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.
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Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.
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When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
