Mary Karr Quotes
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.
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Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.
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Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
