Ridley Pearson Quotes
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
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The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
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Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.
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The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination.
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I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.
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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
