Minnie Pearl Quotes
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.
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Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
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I am very observant of people's character.
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No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
