Kim Harrison Quotes
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.
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All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
