Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
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I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
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It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.
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Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.
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When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.
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The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
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Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.
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It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle down with, so it didn't happen.
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The gutter is Bertie Ahern's natural habitat.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Music is like magic. There's a certain feeling you get when you real and you spit and people are feelin' your shit.'
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
