Kathryn Minshew Quotes
Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
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Nevertheless, music will not acknowledge a context greater than itself-social, cultural, or biographical-to which it is conveniently subservient. To paraphrase Goethe's grandiose warning to the scientist: do not look behind the notes, they themselves are the doctrine.
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The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.
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Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.
