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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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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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
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I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.
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I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
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Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.
