Karen Maitland Quotes
Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
Quotes to Explore
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
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My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
