D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves." Another "I was raised to believe that excellence is the deterrent to racism and sexism. And that's how I operate my life." And another "It does not matter who you are or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
