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.

  

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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
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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.

  

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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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  • Age
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• Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

  

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• When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

  

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• My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
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• If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
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  • Happy

• 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