Katy Butler Quotes
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.
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I love corduroy jeans as well as vertical-striped jeans. Both are a fun switch from plain old denim. They can be slimming so long as the stripes aren't too chunky.
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I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
