Kate Bernheimer Quotes
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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The world is the same everywhere.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
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Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms.
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No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
