Mary Karr Quotes
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
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The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
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Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.
