Krista Tippett Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
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We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
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We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
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If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.
