Mary E. Pearson Quotes

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

Mary E. Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 14, 1955

Topics

TimeCuriousWorldDecisionsFirst

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

SuccessWisdomYouPersonBecome

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Jodie Foster

BelieveMoviesPersonalLivedEssay

Make sure you like, comment and share other people's items. That teaches Facebook what kinds of things you like to see in your feed.

Robert Scoble

PeopleYouSeeThingsShareComment

On a bigger level, 9/11 was a crystallizing moment for my generation... the bubble popped. We were like, 'Whoa, this is what the real world is like; it's not all fun and games.'

Matt Gallagher

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Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.

Simon Van Booy

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I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.

Jason Mraz

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After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.

DeRay Mckesson

CityRichArtsStoriesBaltimore

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

Douglas Fairbanks

HoldUsDiseaseOnceGood-ByeGets

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

Courtney A. Kemp

PowerSimpleControlSomeoneYou

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.

Clint Hill

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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

Archibald Alexander

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