Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
