Karen Allen Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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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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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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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 don't care why they love me, as long as they love me. I think people respect me because they feel like - I'm kind of like Christmas. I come back every year. You can't get rid of me. I just keep coming back.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
