Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

—Pearl Bailey

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About Pearl Bailey

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Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress, singer, comedian and author. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly!...

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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

—Pearl Bailey

People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.

—Pearl Bailey

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

—Pearl Bailey

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If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country—it's a whole other way of thinking.

—Elayne Boosler

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Simone Weil once said, "I would like to achieve the kind of radiance that can bring about nonviolently what other people might have to do violently." And, of course, we see teachers like that. We see parents like that, who have a kind of radiance so that they don't have to raise their voice; they don't have to beat their children.… They simply make a different atmosphere.

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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

—August Strindberg

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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

—Isaac Asimov

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