Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

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• Stars arrive on their own timetable.

  

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  • Stars
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• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

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• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

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• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
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• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • America
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• Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.

  

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• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

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• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

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• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

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• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

  

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• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

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• I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

  

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  

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• If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

  

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• Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.

  

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• If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

  

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• My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Science
  • Dad
  • Technology