T. R. Pearson Quotes
“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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I like the feeling of being dominated
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Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.
