Kathie Lee Gifford Quotes
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.
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Do not hurry; do not rest.
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If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
