Pam Farrel Quotes
A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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'The little folk dare anything', said his friend. 'And they talk a lot of nonsense. But they talks an awful lot of sense, as well. You listen to 'em at your peril, and you ignore 'em at your peril, too.'
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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
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A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.
