Caitlin Fitzgerald Quotes
There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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It Obama's Nobel peace prize would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
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There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
