Laura Kightlinger Quotes
I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
