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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Rickover management objectives:
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.
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I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?
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Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.
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When you hate people, it not only makes you hate that person, it gives that vibe off for everything around you. I really do believe that.
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Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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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!
