Karen Blixen Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.
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I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
