Jan Karon Quotes

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

Jan Karon

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
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• Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

  

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

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• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

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• With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

  

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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
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• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

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• I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

  

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• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  

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• I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

  

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

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• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

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• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

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  • Good
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  • Mom

• I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

  

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  • People
  • Curiosity

• The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again. … What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?

  

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• Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

  

  Jan Karon
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  • God