Kathryn Budig Quotes
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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Take your time. There's no rush to be good or renowned.
