Pam Houston Quotes
I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Bling is good.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
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I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.
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It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.
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I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
