Pepper Schwartz Quotes
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
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'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
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I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President. It’s been a long time since I said those words the first time, and now I’ve come here after seeing our great country to accept your nomination.
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The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.
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Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.
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The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.
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Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
