K. W. Jeter Quotes

Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.

K. W. Jeter

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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

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• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

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• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

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• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
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• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

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• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
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• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
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• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
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• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
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• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  

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• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
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• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  

  Gail Collins
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• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

  

  Emily Martin
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• I elevated passions into duties. (p.s. That's not enough…)

  

  Larry Harvey

• “I don't run for my physical health, though that's a lucky side effect. I run because I'm tortured inside. I run to soothe the violence in my mind, the depression, the panic, the disappointments, the shame, the frustration, the helplessness against time. You could say I'm running from something... though I'd rather think I'm running TOWARD something. Though I'm probably running just to stay in one place. It seems like most of life is just maintenance, after all.”

  

  Gabrielle Bell
  • Life
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• Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many times already. Killed and lost so much. The remains.

  

  K. W. Jeter
  • Life
  • Die
  • Beating