Krista Tippett Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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It took a good deal of work behind the scenes to achieve this result and I'm glad we've got there.
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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
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Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom. It needn't be much; kicking the dog will do.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.
