Kathleen McGowan Quotes
For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.
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'Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God,' I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.
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Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
