Katrina Mayer Quotes
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Failure is a part of success.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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I really like figure skating.
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I'm really a very fifties housewife.
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Only once you really let go will you realize that you always knew how to fly.
