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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I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
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I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.
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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.
