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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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.
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At home, I like my kids to drink out of stainless steel tumblers. They are non-breakable and non-toxic.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
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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.
