Katherine Ryan Quotes
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
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I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
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That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.
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The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
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Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
