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

• 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'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

• 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

• This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.

  

  James Bovard
  • Up
  • Why
  • Enemy

• A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Believe

• It was like my part-time job as a kid to be an adventurer... in my head. I used to sword-fight in the garden and in the park - with my Nan, of all people, with my Nan who can barely walk! I used to make her run around, and I'd go around destroying these trees and cones and stuff.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Fun

• I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Funny
  • English
  • Language

• Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Country
  • Wind
  • Environmental

• Diet hard, train hard.

  

  Jinder Mahal

• I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Long
  • Energy

• Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving our thanks, any news we could think of, and our names. This whole system of northern hospitality was a gigantic chain, for while we were eating this man’s beans, he was undoubtedly farther up the trail, eating somebody else’s.

  

  Benedict Freedman
  • Father
  • Night
  • Thanks

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

  

  T. R. Pearson