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.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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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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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.
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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.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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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.
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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.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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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.
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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.
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The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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When I was young, I didn't play like I do today. So these kids are starting at the height that I've reached. Think what they might do over time.
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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
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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.
