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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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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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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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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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
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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.
