Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.
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There's nothing ordinary about you. Nothing ordinary at all.
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
