Katie Uhlaender quotes

“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

Source : "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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“Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.”
-- Katie Uhlaender

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“Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.”

“This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.”

“Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?”

“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 64, 1980.

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation