Nancy Pearl Quotes
No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.
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We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.
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I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.
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No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.
