Kate Thornton Quotes
I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'
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We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
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Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
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When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
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The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.
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To me, in retrospect, it was amazing that 'Seinfeld' was a show that had such mass appeal. At first it was a disaster in the ratings, but then it became a cultural phenomenon. I don't know if that's possible anymore, but I don't try for that.
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
