Karen E. Quinones Miller Quotes
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
Quotes to Explore
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
