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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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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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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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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Interdeterminacy was a figure-ground problem arising from incongruity between the visual bias of classical science and the new acoustic sensibilities.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
