Patricia Meyer Spacks Quotes
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I enjoy my life.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
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I had never seen so many old people in one place at one time. Neither had Harry. 'It’s like Wednesday morning at the world’s biggest Denny’s,' he said.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
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I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.
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Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
