Mary Karr Quotes
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
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My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.
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I am alone with my sin. This is why they rule. The Peerless Scarred know that dark deeds are carried through life. They cannot be outrun. They must be worn if one is to rule. This is their first lesson. Or was it that the weak do not deserve life?
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The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
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I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
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I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!
