Karen Finerman Quotes
I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
