Mary Pipher Quotes
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.
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Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
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Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
