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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When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.
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That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.
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In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
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I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
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I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
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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.
