Karl Iagnemma Quotes
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.
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I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA.
