Allison Pearson Quotes
My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I am a Zionist.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends.
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My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life.
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My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.
