Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
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There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.
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I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.
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I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.
