Mary Pierce Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
-
I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
-
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
-
Retiring is the easy way out.
-
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
-
I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
-
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
-
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
-
I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
-
A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
-
What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
-
I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
-
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
-
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
-
I hope I'm always learning something.
-
Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
-
One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
-
I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
-
Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.
-
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.
-
The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.
-
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits.
-
I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.
