The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.


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PAUL PIERCE
There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line...
PAUL PIERCE
I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
PAUL PIERCE
Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra...
TAMORA PIERCE
A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
TAMORA PIERCE
That’s what Society does—spread the blame so there is no villain
PIERCE BROWN
I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE
A lot of the technology stocks may be down lately, but people who have been holding good old blue ch...
BEN PIERCE
People tend to do much of their tax planning late in the year.
BEN PIERCE
What we try to do is make it easy for people with the financial means and philanthropic interest to ...
BEN PIERCE
Personally, I think that the school did a poor job of letting the students know about our situation,...
BEN PIERCE
Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
PIERCE BROWN
I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE
Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE
I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'
PIERCE BROSNAN
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million insta...
PIERCE BROSNAN
You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The ...
PIERCE BROWN
I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE
Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE
Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE
We've got a lot of quality right now. Get us a defensive tackle and a little more depth, and we'll b...
ANTONIO PIERCE
He's revived. He's coming back with a chip on his shoulder.
ANTONIO PIERCE
maybe the smartest player we have.
ANTONIO PIERCE
Jay's my boy ... He's saved our butt three or four times,
ANTONIO PIERCE
That's how serious he is about proving himself. This isn't even about playing with a chip on your sh...
ANTONIO PIERCE
We played those guys as tough as anybody at their place. We put ourselves in a position to win, and ...
ANTONIO PIERCE
When I first signed here, I was told by Coach Coughlin, the defensive coordinator, everybody, 'We ha...
ANTONIO PIERCE
We knock those guys off next week, we might not have the best record in the N.F.C., but we'd have th...
ANTONIO PIERCE
It felt real good, ... Just to go out and prove that I can do it week in and week out. Not just to t...
ANTONIO PIERCE
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i...
CHARLIE PIERCE
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,...
CHARLIE PIERCE
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE
Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere ...
MARY PIERCE
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow...
CHARLIE PIERCE
I was aware that I was not getting the good acting roles because I was either too handsome, too pret...
PIERCE BROSNAN
I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in t...
PIERCE BROSNAN
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee...
PIERCE BROSNAN
There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular ...
TAMORA PIERCE
Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey...
TAMORA PIERCE