Karl Kraus Quotes
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Intelligence tests require that certain things be figured out, but the figuring out doesn’t count. If the figuring out leads to the right answer, then of course the right answer counts. But no tester will ever know and no score will ever reveal whether the right answer was a triumph of imagination and intellectual daring, or whether the child knew the right answer all along. In addition, the more time the child spends on figuring things out on the test, the less time there is for filling in the right answers; that is, the more you actually think to get the right answers on an intelligence test, the less intelligent the score will look.
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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
