Tamora Pierce Quotes
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I was rambunctious - a boy's boy, full of energy. I wasn't a bad kid. I just liked to talk.
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You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
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I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he's been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
