Owen King Quotes
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
