Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Love is a state of being.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.
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The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
