Kem Nunn Quotes
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
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I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.
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Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
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I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.
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In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
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My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.
