Mary Pipher Quotes
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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We've been worried for some time that one of the ways that North Korea can retaliate against further escalation of tensions is via cyber, and particularly attacks against our financial sector. This is something they have really perfected as an art against South Korea.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
