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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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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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.
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We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.
