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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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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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
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But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.
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What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.
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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.
