Wanda Koop Quotes
Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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Because the managerial élites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.
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Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.
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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
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We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
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Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.
