Katherine Ryan Quotes
I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
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I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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Alors sempre avanti! (Ever Forward / Always Ahead)
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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
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Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.
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Rickover management objectives:
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.
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Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.
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I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!
