Parker Palmer Quotes
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I like to discover new things.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
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I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.
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My life is certainly not common, but I think of myself as... a 'normal' teenager.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
