Krista Tippett Quotes
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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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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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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
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I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.
