Katharine Hamnett Quotes
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Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.
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If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today.
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The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
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We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
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When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
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I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.
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Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.
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Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.
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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
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The most common bad habit I have seen in traders - good and bad ones - is the inability to react correctly to market action.
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Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
