Blaine Pardoe Quotes
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
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We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
