Kara Swisher Quotes
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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5-hour Energy has always been about helping hard working people, and the Amazing People program takes this further by making a significant difference in the lives of those who are working through difficult circumstances.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I love bayou life.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
