Katori Hall Quotes
In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
Quotes to Explore
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.
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We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.
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The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
