Katori Hall Quotes
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like, 'Are you a unicorn?'
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Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
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Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.
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My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.
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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.
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In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.
