Mary Pipher Quotes
Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.
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Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.
