Kaki King Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
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Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
