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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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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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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Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.
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God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.
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“He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.”
