Mary Karr Quotes
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.
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Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.
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A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.
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Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
