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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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
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When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.
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Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.
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I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.
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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.
