Pearl S. Buck Quotes
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
