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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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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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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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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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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I love biker chicks!
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Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.
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It's been fun doing interviews with the other astronauts, getting to hear: 'Oh, that's how he explains it' or 'That's how she thinks about it.' We work together, but we don't necessarily share all those thoughts or ideas.
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It is not, however, the unfamiliarity or strangeness of a work or of a composer's manner that is a bar to understanding, but rather the disappearance of the familiar, the ongoing disappointment of the expectations and hopes fostered by the musical tradition in which we have grown up.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
