Katharine Jefferts Schori Quotes
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'
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Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
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I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
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I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.
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I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
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If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.
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I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.
