Caroline Knapp Quotes

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1959 - June 3, 2002

Topics

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In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Joel Kinnaman

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I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

John McEnroe

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Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Stephen Chbosky

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I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

Ron White

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I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it.

Ruby Dee

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I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

Dianne Reeves

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Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

Douglas Brunt

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I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Annie Lennox

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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

Susan Anton

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As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

Shawn Amos

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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Thomas Mann

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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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