Pearl S. Buck Quotes
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
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Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
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My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
