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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No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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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.
