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.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Business
  • Advertising
  • Risks

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Long
  • Years
  • Ice

• 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.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• 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.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Help

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• 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.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

  

  Jon Fishman

• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

  

  Marlene Dietrich

• 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.

  

  Pam Houston
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