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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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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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.
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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.
