Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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In that childhood room for whose warmth and safety we search all the rest of our lives and never find again.
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I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.
