Kathleen Rubins Quotes
When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'
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As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.
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I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
