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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I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.
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One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.
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I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
