Nancy Pearl Quotes
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
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I'm sort of a slob.
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Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.
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Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
