Gayle King Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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I know exercise is important, but I hate it!
