Deborah King Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
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For us here in Washington, we must never ever stop asking God for the wisdom to serve the public according to His will.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.
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'It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.'
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Civility is the art and act of caring for others.
