Karin Slaughter Quotes
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
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Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.
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My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
