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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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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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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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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One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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Do I disagree that we need to ban all Muslims from entering the country? Yes, I disagree with that strongly.
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I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
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The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I'm selfish.
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It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
