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 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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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
