Mark Pagel Quotes

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Mark Pagel

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Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.

Amy Purdy

MusicFunMeRoadYouDown

I was depressed for a long time.

Tony Rock

TimeLongLong TimeDepressed

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

Ruth Glick

GoodPastFunThinkLiteratureYou

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Moliere

CourageWellPietyPretenders

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

Monica Hesse

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If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Louise Fletcher

MyselfMeHurtDownNeverHear

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

Don Rickles

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I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

Douglas Brunt

SparkCareerProfessionalNowTennis

All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.

David Shields

GoodWindThinkTeethUpBooks

I'm curious what the acting world is like; I'm so foreign to it that I'd be curious to see what that's all about.

Brendon Urie

CuriousWorldActingSeeLikeAbout

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Ariel Sharon

StrengthMeNightBelieveI Believe

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Piers Anthony

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