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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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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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 did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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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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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.
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I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
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The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.
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Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.
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The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.
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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.
