Wendy Kaminer Quotes
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The media is controlled.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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Haiti is in desperate poverty.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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Sometimes we have to lie so that we do not needlessly hurt others. The important thing is that we are honest with ourselves. That we know how to bend without breaking ourselves. -Crepusculo Lepidoptera
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
