David L. Katz Quotes
Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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Because desperation breeds gullibility. People want to lose weight so much that their common sense shuts off.
