Karen Allen Quotes
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
