Karen Traviss Quotes

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

Karen Traviss

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Me

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Free
  • Design
  • Sky

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.

  

  Angel Cabrera
  • Driving

• There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

  

  Luke Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Ideas

• Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Real

• People think we're only into big buildings, but iconic houses have always been the real interest. We own 11 of the world's top hotels and all the support services needed to keep them running. Trump properties have to be the best - clubs, hotels, houses.

  

  Eric Trump
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience