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 any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.
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... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.
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Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.
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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.
