Nancy Pearl Quotes
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?
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If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
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Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
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I imagine people might look at me and think 'Oh, she has been single-mindedly working on her career all these years and those family issues have fallen by the wayside', but that is absolutely not the case.
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This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.
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I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
