Mary Pipher Quotes
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
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When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
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I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.
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It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.
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We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
