Pam Brown Quotes
A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Let us have peace.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us.
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The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
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Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
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A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.
