Deena Kastor Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
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Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.
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I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.
