Allison Pearson Quotes
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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It's so hard not to smile.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.
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Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
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Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
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Endings are not my thing.
