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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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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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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Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.
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I guess you've just got to take it because there is always going to be negative criticism and positive. But I think both of them can make you stronger.
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That is to say, their thoughts came higglety-pigglety out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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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.
