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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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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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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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I'm a fast writer.
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For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
