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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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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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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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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What best friends do so well is they just waste time.
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Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
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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.
