Kathleen Parker Quotes
We love to boast that we are a nation of immigrants - and we are. But there's a different sense of America among those who trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice.
Quotes to Explore
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
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At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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I've given no thought to moving to America at all.
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He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - 'just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917'.
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We love to boast that we are a nation of immigrants - and we are. But there's a different sense of America among those who trace their bloodlines back through generations of sacrifice.
