Karl Shapiro Quotes
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
