Kate Christensen Quotes
In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.
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Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
