Katherine Jenkins Quotes
I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
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Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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We manipulate fabric.
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I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.
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But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
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You know what I will do sometimes? I'll let my phone die... and I will say, 'You know what, I'm not lying, my phone died.'
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A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.
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I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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I get 'voluptuous' a lot, or 'shapely,' but the fact is that as you get older you learn to embrace your body type. I wasn't able to do that until I was at least 23.
