Caroline Knapp Quotes
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I have a great office.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.
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Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
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All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
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I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'
