Gary Paulsen Quotes
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
Quotes to Explore
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
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It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
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Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.
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What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
