Willa Cather Quotes
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
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I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
