Kate Williams Quotes

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

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• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pain

• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • New York
  • Mirrors

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Funny
  • Mom
  • Couple

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• 'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • People
  • America
  • Movie

• I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Different
  • Think
  • Animal

• My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

  

  B. Traven
  • Up
  • Men
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• We really think, hopefully, all three of those guys will hit the ground running June 12 when we start our summer conditioning.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Think
  • Summer
  • Conditioning

• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• My blood sugar went out of control. Diabetes runs in my family, so I went to see my doctor. He was like, 'Buck up,' and it was sort of the wake-up call that I needed to hear.

  

  Antonia Eugenia Vardalos
  • Hear
  • Diabetes
  • Wake-Up Call

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
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