Pearl S. Buck Quotes
There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
Quotes to Explore
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
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Almost went vegan, but no, I didn't go vegan.
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My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
