Mary Pipher Quotes
We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.
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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
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We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
