Mary Pipher Quotes
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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Everything I say is true.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.
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There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.
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My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.
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With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.
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I wasnt always this introverted.
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One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
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All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.
