Katie Hafner Quotes
Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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I've never been a partier.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.
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We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
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I love a warm bath at the end of a day.
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Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
