Pinetop Perkins Quotes
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!
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I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
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Everything I ever wanted to know I just ask a search engine and there's the answer. So the least I can do for my clients is share what I've learned.
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The Lamb is, indeed, the emblem of love; but what so terrible as the wrath of the Lamb? The depth of the mercy despised is the measure of the punishment of him that despiseth. No more fearful words than those of the Saviour. The threat- enings of the law were temporal, those of the gospel are eternal. It is Christ who reveals the never-dying worm, the unquenchable fire, and He who contrasts with the eternal joys of the redeemed the everlasting woes of the lost. His loving arms would enfold the whole human race, but not while impenitent or unbelieving; the benefits of His redemption are conditional.
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
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I play blues old-timey style.
