Allison Pearson Quotes
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)
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I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.
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The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'
