Katie Hafner Quotes
In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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We live because of the dreams.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.
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The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
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In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.
