Kathryn Harrison Quotes
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
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I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.
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Public opinion is the whore among opinions.
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We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
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I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
