Charlie Pierce Quotes

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

Charlie Pierce

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If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

Jennifer Esposito

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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

John Dalberg-Acton

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One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Ann Rule

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Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

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The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

Jeff Fortenberry

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I write manically.

Robert Ben Garant

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Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

Ruth Reichl

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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

Michael Porter

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After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Lowell Thomas

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We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

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My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Dolores Huerta

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