Kathleen Rooney Quotes
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.
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People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.
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No, I've never played baseball in my life.
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I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
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As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'
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Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
