Bill Klem Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
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Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
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I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.
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It ain't nothin' till I call it.
