Kate Williams Quotes
I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.
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I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
