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 hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
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David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.
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Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.'
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.
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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.
