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.

Pepper Schwartz

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• 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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • People
  • May
  • Reality

• There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • History
  • Cooperation

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Well

• I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Weird

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Once
  • Criminal
  • Disgrace

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Born
  • Paris

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Goal
  • Defeat
  • Sail

• You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Learn
  • Body

• Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Want
  • Ever

• 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.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Camera

• 'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Men
  • Between
  • Brothers

• 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.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Past
  • Television
  • Option

• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Hero

• I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.

  

  King Tuff
  • Mind
  • Blow

• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Humans
  • Peaceful
  • Beings

• The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Country
  • Death
  • Eyes

• Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

  

  Pepper Schwartz