Caroline Knapp Quotes
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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My heroes were all in the theatre.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
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When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.
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Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
