Catherine Bramwell-Booth Quotes
Anybody can do their best, but we are helped by the Spirit of God to do better than our best.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.
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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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I wasn't especially a Broadway type. I liked film acting better. I didn't want to stay up late. I wasn't a smoker, a drinker, or a drug-taker. So that kind of Broadway life - not that that's what they do. But they do stay up late and hang out at Joe Allen's until 2 in the morning, and that just wasn't for me.
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The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.
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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
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The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.
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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
