Mary Pilon Quotes

By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years.

Mary Pilon

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GoodCultureRetirementGolfFlorida

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Joanna Lumley

FeetDoingGymDownStairsRun

There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

AloneFaceDoingYouStopThrough

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

Steven Spielberg

FatherVisionStorySomeoneTell

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

Stewart Udall

PeopleWindEnergyBackFresh

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

Tom Sharpe

KnowledgeDangerousLittleLethal

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

Tom Ellis

ThinkAmericanDreamLittleStarted

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

Roger B. Taney

PeopleConstitutionHandsWill

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Robert Wilkie

NeverExperiencedCommunalPrivate

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

GoWayPossibleStartingAboveOnly

I like being a Girl Scout.

Debbie Reynolds

GirlScoutBeingLikeBeing A Girl

I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I'm proud of, and I think that's important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don't.

Clare Balding

LiveSpiritualMeProudThinkFeel

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Alice Walker

BecomeSexualityUsBecauseActually

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