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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When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
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I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*
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The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
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I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.
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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.
