Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I don't think I'm intense.
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There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
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I've always made music that was representative of real life.
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The president has willfully defrauded the American people in the enactment and implementation of Obamacare.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
