Karen Finerman Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
