Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле!
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The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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I saw myself as Joan of Arc.
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If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
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We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.
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As I grew older and more mature, I've been able to move beyond the immediate response of violence to a projection of the pragmatic, political consequences of that violence. So it's an effort to attain equilibrium.
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Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,When ignorance reigns life is lost.
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Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
