Ridley Pearson Quotes

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• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• I don't attend costume parties.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Parties
  • Costume
  • Attend

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Book
  • Rejected
  • Bestseller

• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • God
  • Important
  • Art

• If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Life
  • Water
  • Vision

• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Nature
  • Age
  • Control

• All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Women
  • Taken
  • Sweet

• Let all children come unto me.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children

• You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.

  

  T. S. Matthews
  • Daily

• Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Good
  • God
  • Father

• But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Work
  • Men
  • Country

• When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Mean
  • Break
  • Stills

• The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin.

  

  David Bach
  • Wealth
  • Stills
  • Easier

• Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Stuff
  • Partner
  • Prodigy

• I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

  

  Ridley Pearson
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