Alice Miller Quotes
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
