Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
Quotes to Explore
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
