Edith Pearlman Quotes

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

Edith Pearlman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 26, 1936

Topics

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I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Joe Biden

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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

Joel Osteen

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Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.

John O. Brennan

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It's true - my mother kicked me out the house at 14. I had to go live with my sister. I had some problems. I was very rebellious as a kid. I don't even know why or where it came from, but I had a lot of anger. Me and my mom clashed a lot because she didn't tolerate that, as she shouldn't from a 14-year-old.

Michael Che

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It's one of the things that movies do offer you, despite all of their hardships - they offer you moments of transcendence.

Michael Cimino

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I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.

Rob Gronkowski

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For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

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We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

Molly Ivins

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My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.

Donald Bren

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When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

Diane Lane

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Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

Donella Meadows

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I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.

Douglas Booth

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