Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I am healthy and happy.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
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I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
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I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
