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Karen Maitland Quotes

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Karen Maitland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: 1956

Topics

Family Think Kings English Middle

You can lose. Michael Jordan lost, but that doesn't mean he wasn't the GOAT.

Jimmy Butler

You Lose Lost Mean Goat He

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Jimmy Iovine

Dog Focus Need Bone Something Like

I walk out of my apartment, and St. Vincent's is standing there like a ghost ship. That was the ground zero of AIDS in New York: a conservative institution that quickly adapted to its unconventional patients and made heroic efforts to try and save them.

John Cameron Mitchell

Walk New York Ship New Conservative

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

Max Irons

Name Doors Shut Slammed Opened

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

Michael C. Hall

Father Someone Talk More Never Move

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

Great Culture World First Empire

By the end of my first year at the Dogs, we'd won the competition, and I'd played some pretty good footy.

Sonny Bill Williams

Good Competition End Year First Won

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

Rufus Sewell

Work Because Get Only England Based

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

Judith Butler

War World Speak Violence Out Up

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

Jay Samit

Work Failure Business Innovation You

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

Chris Pine

Work Great Job Face Thinking Enjoy

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

Ashley Jensen

Me Husband Back Holiday I Can Want