Kathy Bates Quotes
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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The divorce between the church and the state ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere in any State or in the nation should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a church tax upon the whole community.
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There are too many men and women; there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed; no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.
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I really feel that some people neglect and overlook compassion because they associate it with religion. Of course, everyone is free to choose whether they pay religion any regard, but to neglect compassion is a mistake because it is the source of our own well-being.
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A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.
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A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
