Mary Pilon Quotes

My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and me at the state fair, in front of the Golden Gate bridge, or smiling half-heartedly next to a mascot.

Mary Pilon

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BestBrotherParentsMeBridgeGate

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

Joanna Southcott

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The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

John C. Mather

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My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MoneyComputersPinkGuitarYouWay

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Amnat Ruenroeng

GoodMotherMyselfFocusProudFix

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Steven Curtis Chapman

MusicCountryCountry MusicWonderful

I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.

Rob Gronkowski

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People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

Jason Biggs

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If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

Jon Postel

UglySpaceTreatNameYouNice

Finding gainful employment to pay for housing is hard for any veteran experiencing homelessness. It's even more difficult for veterans who've also had encounters with police and stints in jail.

Chris Gardner

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There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

Brandy Norwood

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There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.

Bryan Procter

LoveMoonWindNameFragranceGrows

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Augusten Burroughs

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