Katherine Ryan Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
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Only facing right-handers and not left-handers is hard for me.
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I get I style inspiration everywhere: the streets of New York, magazines... everywhere!
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.
