Barbara Pease Quotes
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
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I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
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I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.
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I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.
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I've gone to real school my whole life.
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Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
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Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
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Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
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Attract more friends, and extend life. Humor heals.
