Kathleen Norris Quotes
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
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I keep track of my kids sometimes with social media. I have to check TMZ every morning to see what's going on, and then at night, I go to bed with Snapchat.
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Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.
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I love a good paella, so I'd love to be able to know how to cook one.
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What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
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The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world's failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
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When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.
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I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
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Everybody's a nun.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
