Karyn Kusama Quotes
I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
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I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
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I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.
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We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.
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I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.
