Kate Klise Quotes
I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)
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New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.
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I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.
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I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
