Dave Pelzer Quotes

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Dave Pelzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 29, 1960

Topics

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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

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Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

John Burnside

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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

John Maynard Smith

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I grew up in Spokane, Washington, in a very Christian, conservative home.

Matty Mullins

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Jean Rostand

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A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Tracy Anderson

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Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Marvin Ammori

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After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

Jose Andres

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Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

Dean Ornish

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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Alice Koller

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

William Graham Sumner

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