Mary Karr Quotes
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.
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A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.
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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
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I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark.
