Mary Karr Quotes
I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?
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I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
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I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.
