Katie Nolan Quotes
You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
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You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
