Nancy Kress Quotes
You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
