Karen Maitland Quotes
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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My health is fine.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there did I have a chance to really experiment and see how far I could stretch; I went maybe a little too far in certain directions.
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Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
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Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
