Kathe Koja Quotes
'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.
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'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
