Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) Quotes
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
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When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.
