Karen Marie Moning Quotes
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
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My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
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Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
