Pearl Bailey Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
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Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
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People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
