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Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.
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Pamela Anderson
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But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
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Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
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What the hell were you thinking?" Sleepy demanded. "Did Pamela Anderson die and leave an opening on the Baywatch rescue squad or something?
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Meg Cabot
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On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.
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Tommy Lee (The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band)
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Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck!
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Pamela Anderson (Kant and Theology (Philosophy and Theology))
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Women are really not respected to this day. That's why we need humor, style, stamina, art.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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This is when I learned the art of leaving. I knew if I didn’t get away, I’d be no help to anyone. Freeing yourself is mandatory before you can help to free others.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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I am who I am, which is a combination of all I know, and I’ve always believed that striving to be a sensual person, or being sexy, should not conflict with intelligence. Women have fought hard so that we do not need to limit ourselves.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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Every person is attractive to somebody. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Every person is probably ugly to somebody, too. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Don’t take it personally.
And, we all need to do ourselves a favor. We need to believe people when they tell us we’re beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or hunkalicious, especially when that someone is somebody that we think is beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or babealicious.
Because you know what? They probably really think so. They probably aren’t lying. They probably don’t give a damn that you don’t look like Pamela Anderson.
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Dan Pearce (Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One)
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Most people's lives go unrecorded, or worse unlived.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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Ten Best Song to Strip
1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly.
2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars.
3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clumsiest troglodyte strut like Anita Pallenberg. (However, the Troggs will make you look like even more of a troglodyte, so avoid if possible.)
4. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard. The Lep's shouted choruses and relentless programmed drums prove ideal for chicks who can really stomp. (Coincidence: I once saw a stripper who, like Rick Allen, had only one arm.)
5. "Amber" by 311. This fluid stoner anthem is a favorite of midnight tokers at strip joints everywhere. Mellow enough that even the most shitfaced dancer can make it through the song and back to her Graffix bong without breaking a sweat. Pass the Fritos Scoops, dude.
6. "Miserable" by Lit, but mostly because Pamela Anderson is in the video, and she's like Jesus for strippers (blonde, plastic, capable of parlaying a broken nail into a domestic battery charge, damaged liver). Alos, you can't go wrong stripping to a song that opens with the line "You make me come."
7. "Back Door Man" by The Doors. Almost too easy. The mere implication that you like it in the ass will thrill the average strip-club patron. Just get on all fours and crawl your way toward the down payment on that condo in Cozumel. (Unless, like most strippers, you'd rather blow your nest egg on tacky pimped-out SUVs and Coach purses.)
8. Back in Black" by AC/DC. Producer Mutt Lange wants you to strip. He does. He told me.
9. "I Touch Myself" by the Devinyls. Strip to this, and that guy at the tip rail with the bitch tits and the shop teacher glasses will actually believe that he alone has inspired you to masturbate. Take his money, then go masturbate and think about someone else.
10. "Hash Pipe" by Weezer. Sure, it smells of nerd. But River Cuomo is obsessed with Asian chicks and nose candy, and that's just the spirit you want to evoke in a strip club. I recommend busting out your most crunk pole tricks during this one.
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Diablo Cody
“
Little birds are messengers, they carry secrets of the dead to the living..
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
“
You can think your way out of living. This is when I learned To flip the script— When you change your thoughts, you change your life.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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Reading is my only true friend.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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I'd rather be looked over than over looked." -Star
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Pamela Anderson
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It would take a lifetime to understand another person. We all have complex, nuanced behaviors that make us who we are, or why we are. Acceptance is a better way to go.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
“
Pamela Anderson: 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song:
"My baloney has a first name, it's L-A-R-G-E. My baloney has a second name, it's P-E-N-I-S. I like to use it every day and if you ask me why, I'll saaay, 'Cuz my Large Penis has a way with P-U-S-S-Y today!"
Actually that was the message that got me interested.
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Tommy Lee (Tommyland)
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Love is the quality of attention we pay to things
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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When I decided to leave was when I learned and accepted that I can’t change people, I can’t save people, only love them. I can only change myself and my circumstances
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
“
We must find our own self-soothing techniques—mantras, meditation, movement—and embrace them in times of difficulty.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
“
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
“
When some protesters destroy cars and burn shops, they symbolically attack private property that is the basis of capitalism. When they attack police officers, they symbolically reject and challenge repressive state forces - forces that primarily protect the capital.
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Pamela Anderson
“
Everyone alive is a mess. We are all just doing the best we can.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I turned to activism and poetry when I was hurting, to express myself, and to remind myself who I was. It helped me tremendously to be busy doing what I felt was meaningful.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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I glance over in his direction and can't help but feel like he sure looks as if he moved right along to his Pamela Anderson wanna be.
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L.M. Trio (The Game Changer (The Game Changer, #1))
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Pamela Anderson Haiku
Ben Stiller
beds Pamela Anderson.
My alarm clock rings
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Beryl Dov
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Florida’s the perfect camouflage,” said Serge. “Up in Middle America, even one of our low-profile whack jobs would stick out like Pamela Anderson bronco-riding a UFO.
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Tim Dorsey (Electric Barracuda (Serge Storms #13))
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FAME ISN’T SOMETHING YOU CAN PURSUE, AND IT’S CERTAINLY not something you can stop, even if you want to. It just happens—and with it, the craziest moments. Ridiculous, impossible things you can’t imagine. I know I couldn’t have imagined them.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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It was as if she saw him in a whole new way, as if he had magically been transformed into a new person. Perhaps what she could really see, or wanted so very much to see, was how much he cared for her. Not that he wanted something from her, but that he wanted to see to it that she was happy, that she was taken care of, that that was what he truly wanted. And in that instant, it made her love him.
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Pamela Anderson (Star)
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I learned the importance of self-care. Breathing correctly, a healthy diet, and forcing myself to exercise. Meditation and prayer were lifesaving. And reading was an elemental way to process my feelings. Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth sat at my bedside, while Kahlil Gibran’s poetry and stories seemed a comfort, and fitting.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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In Kiribati, the unimane and unaine (old women) are considered the guardians of the culture, a state of affairs that sets it apart from the United States, where the final arbiter for all things cultural is the adolescent male, which explains the otherwise inexplicable popularity of the World Wrestling Federation, gangsta rap, and Pamela Anderson.
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J. Maarten Troost (The Sex Lives of Cannibals)
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The best kind of revenge is to let him see how strong and beautiful you are, with or without him.” ~Emma Anderson
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Pamela Ann (Scornfully Yours (Torn, #1))
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I understand more and more how the world works As time passes. Good and bad. But I know Julian Assange is a hero. He will be free one day. I have to believe that.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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The most important thing to me, after being a mom, was my deep passion for animals and the environment. Activism fit alongside my career naturally.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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MY FRIENDSHIP WITH JULIAN ASSANGE HAS BEEN INVIGORATING, sexy, and funny. Though his circumstances are not funny at all. Ten years incarcerated, in one way or another.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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we all search for any excuse for the people we love.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I’ve always believed that striving to be a sensual person, or being sexy, should not conflict with intelligence.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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You can think your way out of living
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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To love anything is to accept its loss —UNKNOWN
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)
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Life is a series of problems we must navigate with grace - one problem solved, another arises, again and again until we die.
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Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela
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I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
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Pamela Anderson
“
It would take a lifetime to understand another person. We all have complex, nuanced behaviors that make us who we are, or why we are. Acceptance is a better way to go. A delicious assurance.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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It’s usually those without a cause who are the angriest ones. Projecting their shame, blame, And an unfortunate lack of interest in the world— Apathy is a sickness. But there are many angels in the world.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I made it a habit to go to museums, historical sites, and galleries, and to talk to local people everywhere I traveled. My thirst for knowledge. I was an empty vessel, and I was filling and filling me. Insatiable.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Combining humor and hard-hitting messages has been my key to being a successful activist. Broadening perspectives, debating, sharing ideas. Change can be a chain reaction, especially when engaging young, hungry, receptive minds.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Before it became popular to be “green,” drive an electric car, or greenwash, I traveled across the European continent, from Graz and Berlin to Copenhagen and Brussels, pushing for a “Green New Deal” for Europe. The idea was ahead of its time.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I’ve found it’s most important to be thoughtful and intentional with your actions. That means advocating with respect, instead of being the typical Westerner who always wants to impose their annoying points of view and not-always-shared opinions on others.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Gushing I look around and am able to digest where I’ve come from, in a whole new light. A Playmate, A small-town girl in Hollywood— and feel proud of myself. No one else in history has had the same story— I did it all on my own— and I did it against the odds.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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How could I expect anyone to love me enough to see through it all? They had nothing to go on but this image being flung into the world. No matter how I tried, the image was bigger than me and always won. My life took off without me. It felt superficial, materialistic.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Her advice on men was priceless. Auntie Vie said to never trust a man with a wandering eye—He’s most likely a sex addict . . . She said a woman should have a few men in her life—one for conversation, one for presents, one for sex. It was impossible to make one man responsible for it all. She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you’d never recover . . . Accepting that was the hardest part. Life was not going to be easy, and you couldn’t pretend your way through it. We’re all in the soup together, she
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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MY KIDS GREW UP IN A WILD WORLD AND HAVE NAVIGATED ITS ups and downs brilliantly. I would tell them, Happy is only one emotion. All the other feelings are just as important, even sad, even yearning, surprised, disappointed. I promised them that when they were upset or heartbroken, they would feel joy again, but that they must first sit with those difficult feelings—don’t hide from them. Accept them, relish them, then let them go. Honor them. To an artist, an actor, a musician, those feelings are gifts. They’re where art is born. They can be uncomfortable minutes, hours, days, but they will pass.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I also felt a kinship with Anaïs Nin. A soul connection. I wish I could have met her. We spoke the same language—one of eroticism and tension, of despair. And, as with Frida, I craved a person in my own life who might recognize me as an artist, someone who understood that I was a far cry from what people thought of me.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Australia and many countries are so indebted to the United States (or afraid of it) that they wouldn’t dare do anything against it. It’s more complex than that, obviously, but that’s the bottom line. Unfortunately, the world is set up this way. I wish we could expand our flexibility without being so emotionally charged.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I spoke at a few big political events and traveled with activists and comrades, happy to contribute to the dream of Europe and countries around the world existing beyond capitalism. Our message warned that the poor should not be paying for climate change, yet it is the poor who are, once again, paying the highest price.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Vivienne Westwood and her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, once visited. Vivienne and I met while petitioning for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s release from prison, and she invited me to attend one of her fashion shows in Paris. I spent more time reading the manifesto she left on the chair than admiring the clothes.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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The divorce from Tommy was the hardest, lowest, most difficult point of my life. He wrote to me every day from jail, but I wouldn’t talk to him or visit him. I was crushed. I still couldn’t believe that the person I loved the most was capable of what had happened that night. We were both devastated, but I had to protect my babies.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Vivienne loved that I had so many books and was an avid reader—she always said, If you read, you’ll never be boring, and you’ll always have a job—so when she found a volume of Plato on my bedside table, she insisted Juergen take photos of me reading it leaning up against a tree, sitting on a park bench, rolling with it in the sand.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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And the more sexual images men and women absorb, the more they move from "subjective attraction," colored by love and the emotions, to "objective attraction," determined by an expertise in the human body that is rarely healthy to acquire. How many women begin to feel that their bodies are inadequate not intrinsically but in comparison to others? Too many.
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Pamela Anderson (Lust for Love: Rekindling Intimacy and Passion in Your Relationship)
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She knit me a shawl and told me stories of a painful history. Pinochet. Innocent people sunk to the bottom of the ocean. I visited the prison, Villa Grimaldi, and it was heart-wrenching . . . the artifacts, the proof of treachery. There remains speculation that Neruda might not have died of cancer but, rather, had been murdered at the hands of Pinochet’s regime.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe. He opened his robe and flashed me quickly—completely naked underneath. He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably. It was the first of many bizarre encounters where people felt they knew me enough to make absolute fools out of themselves.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Believe it or not, you can have a relationship electrified by sexual tension if you want it. You can be married to one person and keep the burning fires of lust alive. You don’t have to have an open marriage or litter your home with several partners. And you don’t have to endure a sexless marriage where you feel dead inside. Plenty of couples have done it—they’ve kept the flames of romantic desire lit.
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Pamela Anderson (Lust for Love: Rekindling Intimacy and Passion in Your Relationship)
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As I matured, I noticed most of my boyfriends were bad—and progressively got worse. I often wondered why. Did I turn them into assholes? Was I doing something wrong? Did I make them crazy? They would turn violent, mean, cruel, so quickly. I felt I did everything to try to get them to love me, by being accommodating, generous, or by just being the comedian—laughter always being an easy way for me to cut the tension.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Then came complications, the unexpected injuries that led to more surgery, a vicious cycle. I was fine the way I was. Someone once told me, when it came to surgery, it’s a paradox. You may gain something, but you always lose something when you mess with Mother Nature. I understand that sometimes it might be worth it, or necessary. In my case, it really wasn’t. It was an impetuous, shallow decision. Un-thought-through. A part of my charm.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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When we think of the rain forest, we might think only of the Amazon—the lungs of the Earth—but our mini ecosystems are important as well, and it’s up to us to try to understand their complexities and do all we can to keep them healthy and thriving. My home, Vancouver Island, is a rain forest. I’ve gotten more involved in my own community projects, while still supporting Green Party efforts worldwide and Indigenous and First Nations’ family and culture initiatives.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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On-the-ground activism has always opened my eyes. Visiting Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 broke my heart. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, devastated by natural disasters and corruption, but it’s only an hour from Miami. That always confused me—that it’s so close, but so far out of our consciousness and minds. It’s criminally selfish to turn a blind eye. What I saw there will never leave me—everything in rubble, people searching for survivors and finding dead bodies under the rocks. Widespread chaos and emotional devastation.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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He was into the Beat Generation—Bukowski, Ginsberg, and Henry Miller, whom I also loved but found a bit crude. I was more drawn to artists like Anaïs Nin and Frida Kahlo. Their sensitivity. Frida’s sad and painful self-exploration affected me deeply—I read her memoirs and her poetry and have gathered all her writings over the years, learning all I can about her. I was so moved by her artwork, the reflection of her difficult romance. You could sense in her art how she loved and protected Diego Rivera. How she allowed him to be himself at great cost to her own happiness.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Our trailer was a hot spot—people were drawn to it, and that made me proud. I took in a lot of kids over the years, some of whom became like family. I made breakfast for all. My famous waffles. My boys would just let me know how many friends were coming, and I’d get to making stacks of them. Kids in the park knew they could come to me with anything. I saw myself in some of them, and I wanted to support them with an open heart, lots of food and love. Like what had been done for me in my early life. Not everyone was as lucky as my boys—they knew that, and we’d make sure we helped others when they needed it.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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When it comes to porn, women have to be particularly aware of the effect it has on men. While studies have found that both men and women are more open to straying after viewing porn, this impacts men a lot more than women, as does relationship dissatisfaction in general. While many women can watch porn and still maintain intimacy with their partner, men struggle to do the same.
Their thoughts are fixated on images more than women's are. One study found that men considered their partners less attractive after viewing sexually explicit pictures of other women. Researchers believe this is because exposure to these images causes men to undergo a kind of rewiring in their brain about what a typical naked body should look like. So while women might be able to view porn and honestly say it doesn't affect how they view their partner, they can't assume the same is true for their guy. He might not admit it or even realize it, but studies have shown this to be true and it fits with a man's highly visual nature. If a woman doesn't want another woman in her partner's thoughts, she shouldn't tolerate him watching porn - not when he's alone or even with her.
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Pamela Anderson (Lust for Love: Rekindling Intimacy and Passion in Your Relationship)
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DOCTEUR JOUVE AND MÍSTER MAC
TITULAR
Aquí está el extraño caso
que conmocionó al país,
los crímenes más terribles
de Mister Mac en París.
NOTICIA
El docteur Jouve nació
en el corazón de Europa,
cosa que se traslucía
en sus modos y en su ropa.
De niño fue algo precoz,
si bien su primera cita
no fue una cuestión de amor
sino, más bien, erudita.
Por la mañana se tomaba
un tostón de Thomas Mann,
un vaso de Joyce de frutas
y un milhojas de Renan.
Llamó a su perro Lacan,
llamó a su gato Goethe,
el benjamín era Walter
y su esposa La Feyette.
Tenía un chale en la Pleyáde
una casa en la Montaigne
y un Nietzsche en el cementerio
con un busto de Verlaine.
Cuando estaba en la Camus
su esposa era Simenon
porque le cogía un Sófocles
si él quería un Fenelón.
Como estaba Debussy,
ella se sentía sola,
por eso empezó un diario
y al final se sentió Zola.
Los años van Maupassant,
se va quedando Calvino,
se siente un poco Stravinski,
y muy poco cervantino.
Pero el docteur Jouve esconde
un secreto terrorífico
tras las botellas de Evian
que inundan su frigorífico.
Tiene oculta entre el burdeos,
en gruyère y el gorgonzola,
una pócima secreta
que se llama coca cola.
Cada vez que se la bebe
se le altera el mecanismo
y se transforma en un monstruo
de contumaz consumismo.
Se arranca entre convulsiones
la americana pana,
los pantalones a cuadros
y la bufanda de lana.
Luego se pone sus levis,
sus adidas y su custo
y sale con ganas de
consumir con sumo gasto.
De este modo transformando
docteur Jouve en míster Mac
se va directo de compras
sin pasar por el FNAC.
De golpe adora a los USA
compras nikis de la NASA
le pone Pamela Anderson
y su cultura de masas.
Después de haberse comprado
un doble de Britney Spears,
va a depilarse la espalda
pues no es un lobo en París.
Tiene una serie de Friends
que invita siempre a su House
para mirar la MTV
y en los highlights pone pause.
Por la mañana volvía
a ser el gran europeo
que viste ropa de Sartre
y es -gracias a Dios- ateo.
Era tan grande su Ovidio
que desde una estantería
<<¡Qué vedo!>>, exclamaba Góngora
y <<¡Te Virgilio!>>, Marías.
Pero una noche quemó
su nutrida biblioteca,
y no se salvó del fuego
ni el penúltimo planeta.
Otra noche mató a un hombre
que parecía Balzac
y luego entró en un McDonalds
y se pidió un big mac.
Por estar leyendo un libro
de un tal Jünger Habermás
dicen que a un colega suyo
nadie lo volvió a-ver-más.
Con su Northface y sus RayBan
y su jerga angloparlante
Míster Mac se llevó a muchos
al infierno por peDantes.
CIERRE
No hace falta que escojáis
entre Pamela y Balzac
que todos somos a ratos
docteur Jouve y míster Mac.
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Dino Lanti (Cuentos cruentos (Spanish Edition))
“
I didn’t think we were being quiet, particularly. High heels may have looked dainty, but they didn’t sound that way on a tile floor. Maybe it was just that my dad was so absorbed in the convo on his cell phone. For whatever reason, when we emerged from the kitchen into the den, he started, and he stuffed the phone down by his side in the cushions. I was sorry I’d startled him, but it really was comical to see this big blond manly man jump three feet off the sofa when he saw two teenage girls. I mean, it would have been funny if it weren’t so sad.
Dad was a ferocious lawyer in court. Out of court, he was one of those Big Man on Campus types who shook hands with everybody from the mayor to the alleged ax murderer. A lot like Sean, actually. There were only two things Dad was afraid of. First, he wigged out when anything in the house was misplaced. I won’t even go into all the arguments we’d had about my room being a mess. They’d ended when I told him it was my room, and if he didn’t stop bugging me about it, I would put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers, maybe even hide some (cue horror movie music). No spoons for you! Second, he was easily startled, and very pissed off afterward. “Damn it, Lori!” he hollered.
“It’s great to see you too, loving father. Lo, I have brought my friend Tammy to witness out domestic bliss. She’s on the tennis team with me.” Actually, I was on the tennis team with her.
“Hello, Tammy. It’s nice to meet you,” Dad said without getting up or shaking her hand or anything else he would normally do. While the two of them recited a few more snippets of polite nonsense, I watched my dad. From the angle of his body, I could tell he was protecting that cell phone behind the cushions.
I nodded toward the hiding place. “Hot date?”
I was totally kidding. I didn’t expect him to say, “When?”
So I said, “Ever.” And then I realized I’d brought up a subject that I didn’t want to bring up, especially not while I was busy being self-absorbed. I clapped my hands. “Okay, then! Tammy and I are going upstairs very loudly, and after a few minutes we will come back down, ringing a cowbell. Please continue with your top secret phone convo.”
I turned and headed for the stairs. Tammy followed me. I thought Dad might order me back, send Tammy out, and give me one of those lectures about my attitude (who, me?). But obviously he was chatting with Pamela Anderson and couldn’t wait for me to leave the room. Behind us, I heard him say, “I’m so sorry. I’m still here. Lori came in. Oh, yeah? I’d like to see you try.”
“He seems jumpy,” Tammy whispered on the stairs.
“Always,” I said.
“Do you have a lot of explosions around your house?”
I glanced at my watch. “Not this early.
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Jennifer Echols (Endless Summer (The Boys Next Door, #1-2))
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Isn't love at least as important in life as money? And aren't the objects of the romantic and sexual fantasies of the masses as dependent upon society for their desirable status as surely as the super-rich are for their material wealth? If a billionaire like Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey has to pay lots of money in taxes so that economically disadvantaged people's needs can be met, why shouldn't 'billionaires of love' like Pamela Anderson and Brad Pitt have to provide romantic walks on the beach and hot makeout sessions so that the needs of the romantically and sexually disadvantaged can likewise be met? Who are we as a society to judge that it is more wrong to force someone to be sexually intimate than to take their resources by force? The fact is that some people feel more violated by being robbed than by being groped. If we're going to have a redistributionist system based on aggression, wouldn't it be fairer, when Tax Day comes around, to at least give each victim a choice? 'Pay up or put out!
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Starchild
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Star regarded it for a moment and, with a sigh, sank into the bubbles.
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Pamela Anderson (Star)
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Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan is a British journalist best known for his editorial work for the Daily Mirror from 1995 through 2004. He is also a successful author and television personality whose recent credits include a recurring role as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. A controversial member of the tabloid press during Diana’s lifetime, Piers Morgan established a uniquely close relationship with the Princess during the 1990s.
I mentioned I’d been in contact with her mother.
“Oh crikey, that sounds dangerous!”
“She’s a feisty woman, isn’t she?”
William giggled. “Granny’s great fun after a few gin and tonics.”
“Sh, William,” Diana said, giggling too. “My mother’s been a tremendous source of support to me. She never talks publicly; she’s just there for me.”
“And what about William’s other granny?”
“I have enormous respect for the Queen; she has been so supportive, you know. People don’t see that side of her, but I do all the time. She’s an amazing person.”
“Has she been good over the divorce?”
“Yes, very. I just want it over now so I can get on with my life. I’m worried about the attacks I will get afterward.”
“What attacks?”
“I just worry that people will try and knock me down once I am out on my own.”
This seemed unduly paranoid. People adored her.
I asked William how he was enjoying Eton.
“Oh, it’s great, thanks.”
“Do you think the press bother you much?”
“Not the British press, actually. Though the European media can be quite annoying. They sit on the riverbank watching me rowing with their cameras, waiting for me to fall in! There are photographers everywhere if I go out. Normally loads of Japanese tourists taking pictures. All saying “Where’s Prince William?’ when I’m standing right next to them.”
“How are the other boys with you?”
“Very nice. Though a boy was expelled this week for taking ecstasy and snuff. Drugs are everywhere, and I think they’re stupid. I never get tempted.”
“Does matron take any?” laughed Diana.
“No, Mummy, it gives her hallucinations.”
“What, like imagining you’re going to be king?” I said.
They both giggled again.
“Is it true you’ve got Pamela Anderson posters on your bedroom wall?”
“No! And not Cindy Crawford, either. They did both come to tea at the palace, though, and were very nice.”
William had been photographed the previous week at a party at the Hammersmith Palais, where he was mobbed by young girls.
I asked him if he’d had fun. “Everyone in the press said I was snogging these girls, but I wasn’t,” he insisted.
Diana laughed. “One said you stuck your tongue down her throat, William. Did you?”
“No, I did not. Stop it, Mummy, please. It’s embarrassing.”
He’d gone puce. It was a very funny exchange, with a flushed William finally insisting: “I won’t go to any more public parties; it was crazy. People wouldn’t leave me alone.”
Diana laughed again. “All the girls love a nice prince.”
I turned to more serious matters.
“Do you think Charles will become king one day?”
“I think he thinks he will,” replied Diana, “but I think he would be happier living in Tuscany or Provence, to be honest.”
“And how are you these days--someone told me you’ve stopped seeing therapists?”
“I have, yes. I stopped when I realized they needed more therapy than I did. I feel stronger now, but I am under so much pressure all the time. People don’t know what it’s like to be in the public eye, they really don’t.
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Larry King (The People's Princess: Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best)
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it is wise in such circumstances to heed the advice of the venerable North American philosopher Pamela Anderson: “Never get married on vacation.
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Committed)
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Yo maté a Chanquete y a Laura Palmer. Pamela Anderson me salvó la vida verano tras verano embutida en un ceñido bañador rojo de socorrista. Viajé en la nave Enterprise y me emborraché en la barra de Cheers mucho antes de recibir la invitación para asistir a la boda roja de Juego de Tronos. He presenciado multitud de historias de la cripta y cientos de cuentos asombrosos en los límites de la realidad. Nunca fui un gran héroe americano, pero me llamaban El príncipe de Bel Air. Yo soy el hijo putativo de La tribu de los Brady y el hijastro de Los Simpsons.
Soy un spoiler humano.
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Manu Riquelme, Dos punto cero a la izquierda
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In poetry, there is a lot left to the imagination, but also a raw honesty. Poetry touches the vulnerable spots but doesn’t call anyone out. It’s poignant but also a shield.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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How could I expect anyone to love me enough to see through it all? They had nothing to go on but this image being flung into the world.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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There are multiple layers to a free spirit. It’s not just about being aimless and mindless—it’s a pure connection, it’s flow. It’s an adventure. Intelligence doesn’t look like any one thing. It’s a best-kept secret, it’s mysterious
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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This was when I decided to turn my kind of activism into something full-force. I wanted to share the international attention I was getting with something more meaningful
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Poetry is a political statement.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Vivienne is unbelievably special—real, raw, no filter. A creator of punk, in style and attitude. When she and Andreas came with Juergen Teller to my tiny trailer in Malibu, all we had was an extra blow-up mattress, because we hadn’t moved in properly yet, but no one was fussy, no need for fancy.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I’d like to think all the dogs of our past await us in heaven.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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It was common knowledge that these rich and powerful men ate new girls up, promised them the world and spat them out when it was time to move on to the next starlet. I’m glad it never came to that.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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To use my influence For good. Pure intentions No matter what the world thought . . .
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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I tend to see diamonds in lumps of coal— gold in nickel— I’m an alchemist. Luring in these fantastical characters who would consistently undo me.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela: A Memoir)
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Je skvělé naučit se nebát se pocitů - tuto dovednost si musíte vypěstovat. Všichni máme v mozku jakýsi počítač a nikdo neví, jak komu funguje.
Stejně cenné je zjistit, kdo jsme.
Naším vykoupením je odpuštění. Vykoupením je moudré poznání, že bychom nikdy neměli být závislí na druhých a hledat v nich své štěstí. Nikoho nemůžeme zachránit, můžeme ho pouze milovat.
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Pamela Anderson (Love, Pamela)