Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
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  • Reason
  • Marriage

• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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  • Leader

• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
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  • Men
  • Rest

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
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• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
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• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
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• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
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• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
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• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
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  • Men
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• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
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  • Fence
  • Construction

• People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

  

  Brian Williams
  • People

• I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale

• Stripped of her calculated clothes and the careful camouflage of her make-up she was tired, unalluring, middle-aged. And that was something she would never admit to herself, for most of the illusion of beauty is the conviction of beauty.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Beauty
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  • Illusion

• Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

  

  Anna Torv
  • War
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  • Scary

• The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

  

  Jessi Klein
  • Time
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• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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