Paul Pierce Quotes

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

Paul Pierce

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Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

Joe Murray

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People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

John Cale

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Painting is just a hobby. I really don't think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words... my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.

Stephen Hough

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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

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A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

Michelle Dean

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I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Dick Cavett

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My look is a very individual look. I love Pink, but I don't really dress like Pink.

Ashley Tisdale

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I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

William McKinley

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People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

Suze Orman

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Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Susan Estrich

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I cherished my time playing high school sports.

Peyton Manning

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