T. R. Pearson Quotes

“The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.”

T. R. Pearson

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Clothes
  • Dead
  • Suit

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Woman

• I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Audience
  • Short

• Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful
  • Princess

• God remains a viable hypothesis as the prime mover, however undefinable and untestable that conception may be.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • God
  • May

• I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Power
  • Free
  • Space

• Hopefully, I can follow in Leonardo DiCaprio's shoes. I probably say this in every interview, but he is one of my favorite actors of all time.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • Time
  • Shoes

• I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• I love Victoria's Secret and the brand, and I'm passionate about Victoria's Secret commercials, too.

  

  Adriana Lima

• I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Different
  • Why
  • House

• I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Words

• All managers are under pressure. It's our life, always. It's about how we manage the pressure, the victory, we have to manage everything, even me - the bookmakers put me under pressure every time!

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Life
  • Time
  • Victory

• Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • God
  • Family
  • Home

• If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Good

• It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's possible for anyone, and these people who are singers started off very normal... I realized that it was not that hard to do.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Believe

• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Running

• I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

  

  Max Winkler
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you're just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Authority

• “The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.”

  

  T. R. Pearson