Pearl S. Buck Quotes
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
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Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.
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The eventual survival of the tradition is ultimately not at stake.
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
