Kate Horsley (Kate Parker) Quotes
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.
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Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.
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It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens.
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It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
