Mary Karr Quotes
It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
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It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
